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The Publishing Tail Wagging the Research Dog
(Actually, publishing is not even the tail of research but the flea on the tail...) Update: To fast-forward to 2012 see "Research Works Act H.R.3699: The Private Publishing Tail Trying To Wag The...
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On Janet Malcolm on Shipley & Schwalbe on Email in the New York Review: The...
On: Janet Malcolm "Pandora's Click," a review of Shipley & Schwalbe's The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe The Power of Skywriting What makes email...
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Open Access in the Last Millennium
I thought that as the American Scientist Open Access Forum approaches its 10th year, readers might find it amusing (and perhaps enlightening) to see where the discourse stood 20 years ago. That was...
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From Father Christmas to all the little boys and girls wishing for Open Access
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, [anonymous] wrote: Dear Father Christmas, My wish goes towards allowing any researcher free access to current scientific information -- and when I say free, I mean without any...
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John Wiley on RoMEO and John the Baptist on Supererogation
SUMMARY: Publishers are increasingly adapting to the growing number of Green OA self-archiving mandates now being adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders worldwide. Some of...
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Winner of Open Access Week Haiku Competition
Bill Hubbard has just announced the winner of the SHERPA "Spirit of Open Access" competition: Set your research free As flowers offer nectar To the passing bee Miggie Pickton, University of...
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Raincoat Science: 43 More Open Access Haikus
I've often reflected that OA is closer to raincoat science than rocket science. The essential message is super-simple: It's the online age You're losing research impact... Make it free online About as...
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KlausGrafs KlausGraffiti scheinen für einige Grund immer schriller und...
Klausgrafs KlausGraffiti scheinen für einige Grund immer schriller und koprolalischer zu werden... Komisch, aber was kommt danach?"Harnad kippt seine dogmatische Jauche... KlausGraf - am Montag, 18....
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Open Disagreement
From Peter Murray-Rust's blog:Peter Murray-Rust:"if you post anything [on GOAL] that does not support Green Open Access Stevan Harnad and the Harnadites will publicly shout you down. I have been...
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Forewarning for Forearming for Finch Folly
Abundantly foretold All warning signs have been:OA is just Fools Gold Till first there's Global Green
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The Affirmability of the Sensible -or- On Leading the Academic Cavalry to Water
In an entertaining posting, "The Deniability of the Blog," David Worlock chides me for (amongst other things) failed predictions, hoping that I (and Derk Haank) stick around long enough to keep...
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"EOS" Exposed!
Rick Anderson:"Stevan, is it really true that any institution can join the EOS? According to the webpage, membership is "available to approved institutions" (emphasis mine). I assume that EOS itself...
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A caricature of its own making
From the thread "A creature of its own making?" on GOAL (Global Open Access List).Jean-Claude Guédon: "Alicia Wise always speaks with a forked tongue! I wonder how much she is paid to practise this...
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No Sweat
Richard Poynder and I are apparently both OA "Old Sweats": Richard has been banging on about OA's needing an open umbrella organization about as long as I've been banging on about OA's needing Green OA...
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Suspicions
RP: "I have repeatedly said that I harbour no suspicions about EOS. You repeatedly assert that I do. You likewise keep assigning a variety of different motivations to me that are not true (and how...
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