On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, D Forsdyke wrote:
> Dear Dr. Harnad,
> For the general reader, some of the issues are to be
> found in the latest issue of The Scientist:
>>http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1999/sept/smaglik_p8_990927.html>> However, the "Alexandria problem" seems to remain unanswered. You have
> probably written about this and can provide a summary answer?
>> As you know, the ancient library at Alexandria was destroyed and
> with it all that the library contained. Fortunately, there were some
> copies and the glory of ancient Greek and other cultures was not lost
> for all time.
>> As far as I know the depositary which serves the physics community
> has only one site. One accident and WHAM! it is all gone!! What steps
> are being taken to ensure duplication/triplication at geographically
> disparate sites (like GenBank) in the case of PubMedCentral?
>> Sincerely, Donald Forsdyke (Discussion Leader. Bionet.journals.note)
Steps will be taken. This is a 100% solvable, 100% nonproblem.
See:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad99.ejforum.html
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