On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, David Goodman wrote:
> The relative merits [of central vs institutional self-archiving]
> are not known... and both models are worthy of experimentation.
>> a scientist... requires evidence before conclusions.
It would be hard to get evidence to test the relative merits of central
vs institutional self-archiving if the NIH and Wellcome Trust were
to prejudge the outcome and mandate only central, rather than either/or
(as I and others have recommended):
"A Simple Way to Optimize the NIH Public Access Policy"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4091.html
Stevan Harnad
> ________________________________
>> Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:
>> The Wellcome Trust deserves praise for its continuing
> support to the Open Access movement. The Trust would
> do well to accept the recommendation of Prof. Stevan
> Harnad and decide to support authors depositing their
> papers in their own institutional archives rather than
> just a centralised archive. The relative merits are now
> well known.
