On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Barry Markovitz wrote:
> The New York Times today reported about the serials crisis in
> scholarly libraries and the implications of Bertelsmann buying
> Harcourt. There is certainly cause for concern that fewer and fewer
> publishers... result in higher and higher prices. One of
> two paragraphs mentioned the lunacy of the journals getting their
> material for free and the peer[s] review[ing for free] as well...
>> No mention of the eprint project.
Not surprising. The popular press's main function is FOLLOWING the
news, not FACILITATING it. The Eprint project <http://www.eprints.org>
will be picked up by the press once it's already history. For now,
it's more of a head-shaker that researchers themselves have been
so slow off the mark!
In case any of you have pop-press connections, here are a few
forthcoming talks at which the token just might drop:
Distingushed Speaker lecture. Society for Computers in Psychology.
November 16 2000 New Orleans
http://www.gsu.edu/~lrcdaw/scip3.htm#Session XIV
"Freeing the Scientific Research Literature Online
Through Author Auto-Archiving".
Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting.
November 17 2000 New Orleans.
http://www.psychonomic.org/meeting.htm
Roundtable on Subversive Proposal. American Historical Society.
January 4-8 2001 Boston 2001.
http://www.theaha.org/annual/program/program.html
Keynote. 10th Australasian Information Online Conference.
Sydney Australia, 13th to 22th January, 2001
http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online2001/index.html
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