Re: 17% GREEN in Japan

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:49:14 -0500

On 10-Mar-06, at 1:08 PM, Katja Mruck wrote:

      INTERPRETATION IV: Romeo is biased, at least as
      non-Angloamerican
publishers/journals are concerned ;-) -- in a way I would expect
similar
results for a German survey ...


Liebe�Katjachen, Romeo is definitely biassed toward the international
journal publishers, and those in turn are biassed toward English (So is
ISI, Google Scholar, and, for that matter, science itself.) I too would
be more chuffed if the language of science were my native Hungarian, or,
failing that, the language of Goethe or of Moli�re. But doesn't the
simple, feasible task of providing 100% OA -- already long overdue
because fettered for a decade with irrelevant distractions and deterrents
-- have enough on its plate already without having to re-direct western
european history too? And did I not say (in Interpretation II) that I
suspect that national (as opposed to international) journals, whether
non-English or English, would show the same parochial effect (of retarded
consciousness and under-informedness about OA, and jingoistic
defensiveness and protectionism about its national journals, foolishly
misdirected toward opposing self-archiving instead of embracing it, which
would be what was really in the national interest!)? Tschuess, Stevan
Received on Fri Mar 10 2006 - 18:52:51 GMT