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Archive for Papers in Cognitive and Biobehavioral Sciences
Author: Stevan Harnad
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00
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To all cognitive and biobehavioral scientists:
You are invited to archive your preprints and reprints in the
CogPrints electronic archive.
The Archive covers all the Cognitive Sciences:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Computer Science, Linguistics and Philosophy
CogPrints is completely free for everyone, both authors and readers,
thanks to a subsidy from the Electronic Libraries Programme of the
Joint Information Systems of the United Kingdom and the collaboration
of the NSF-supported Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos.
CogPrints has just been opened for public automatic archiving. This
means authors can now deposit their own papers automatically. The first
wave of papers had been invited and hand-archived by CogPrints in order
to set a model of the form and content of CogPrints.
To see the current holdings:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
To archive your own papers automatically:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/author.html
All authors are encouraged to archive their papers on their home
servers as well.
For ferther information: admin@coglit.soton.ac.uk
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(No need to read if you wish to proceed directly to the Archive.)
The objective of CogPrints is to emulate in the cognitive and
biobehavioral sciences the remarkable success of the NSF-subsidised
Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos
http://xxx.lanl.gov
The Physics Eprint Archive now makes available, free for all, over half
of the annual physics periodical literature, with its annual growth
strongly suggesting that it will not be long before it becomes the
locus classicus for all of the literature in Physics.
What this means is that anyone in the world with access to the Internet
(and that number too is rising at a breath-taking rate, and already
includes all academics, researchers and students in the West, and an
increasing proportion in the Third World as well) can now search and
retrieve virtually all current work in, for example, High Energy
Physics, much of it retroactive to 1990 when the Physics archive was
founded by Paul Ginsparg, who must certainly be credited by historians
with having launched this revolution in scientific and scholarly
publication (www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov).
Does this mean that learned journals will disappear? Not at all. They
will continue to play their traditional role of validating research
through peer review, but this function will be an "overlay" on the
electronic archives. The literature that is still in the form of
unrefereed preprints and technical reports will be classified as such,
to distinguish it from the refereed literature, which will be tagged
with the imprimatur of the journal that refereed and accepted it for
publication, as it always has been.
It will no longer be necessary for publishers to recover (and research
libraries to pay) the substantial costs of producing and distributing
paper through ever-higher library subscription prices: Instead, it will
be the beneficiaries of the global, unimpeded access to the learned
research literature -- the funders of the research and the employers of
the researcher -- who will cover the much reduced costs of implementing
peer review, editing, and archiving in the electronic medium alone, in
the form of minimal page-charges, in exchange for instant, permanent,
worldwide access to the research literature for all, for free.
If this arrangement strikes you as anomalous, consider that the real
anomaly was that the authors of the scientific and scholarly periodical
research literature, who, unlike trade authors, never got (or expected)
royalties for the sale of their texts -- on the contrary, so important
was it to them that their work should reach all potentially interested
fellow-researchers that they had long been willing to pay for the
printing and mailing of preprints and reprints to those who requested
them -- nevertheless had to consent to have access to their work
restricted to those who paid for it. This Faustian bargain was
unavoidable in the Gutenberg age, because of the need to recover the
high cost of producing and disseminating print on paper, but Paul
Ginsparg has shown the way to launch the entire learned periodical
literature into the PostGutenberg Galaxy, in which scientists and
scholars can publish their work in the form of "skywriting": visible
and available for free to all.
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Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology harnad@princeton.edu
Director, phone: +44 1703 592582
Cognitive Sciences Centre fax: +44 1703 594597
Department of Psychology http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/
Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/
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Re: Archive for Papers in Cognitive and Biobehavioral Sciences
Author: David Smith
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00
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Thank God, it is finally happening. I have long wished to have access
to the peer-reviewed articles and academic literature. I hope that this
continues and grows.
Stevan Harnad wrote:
a>
a> To all cognitive and biobehavioral scientists:
a>
a> You are invited to archive your preprints and reprints in the
a> CogPrints electronic archive.
a>
a> The Archive covers all the Cognitive Sciences:
a> Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Computer Science, Linguistics and
Philosophy
a>
a> CogPrints is completely free for everyone, both authors and readers,
a> thanks to a subsidy from the Electronic Libraries Programme of the
a> Joint Information Systems of the United Kingdom and the collaboration
a> of the NSF-supported Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos.
a>
a> CogPrints has just been opened for public automatic archiving. This
a> means authors can now deposit their own papers automatically. The
first
a> wave of papers had been invited and hand-archived by CogPrints in
order
a> to set a model of the form and content of CogPrints.
a>
a> To see the current holdings:
a>
a> http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
a>
a> To archive your own papers automatically:
a>
a> http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/author.html
a>
a> All authors are encouraged to archive their papers on their home
a> servers as well.
a>
a> For ferther information: admin@coglit.soton.ac.uk
a>
a> --------------------------------------------------------------------
a>
a> BACKGROUND INFORMATION
a>
a> (No need to read if you wish to proceed directly to the Archive.)
a>
a> The objective of CogPrints is to emulate in the cognitive and
a> biobehavioral sciences the remarkable success of the NSF-subsidised
a> Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos
a>
a> http://xxx.lanl.gov
a>
a> The Physics Eprint Archive now makes available, free for all, over
half
a> of the annual physics periodical literature, with its annual growth
a> strongly suggesting that it will not be long before it becomes the
a> locus classicus for all of the literature in Physics.
a>
a> What this means is that anyone in the world with access to the
Internet
a> (and that number too is rising at a breath-taking rate, and already
a> includes all academics, researchers and students in the West, and an
a> increasing proportion in the Third World as well) can now search and
a> retrieve virtually all current work in, for example, High Energy
a> Physics, much of it retroactive to 1990 when the Physics archive was
a> founded by Paul Ginsparg, who must certainly be credited by
historians
a> with having launched this revolution in scientific and scholarly
a> publication (www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov).
a>
a> Does this mean that learned journals will disappear? Not at all. They
a> will continue to play their traditional role of validating research
a> through peer review, but this function will be an "overlay" on the
a> electronic archives. The literature that is still in the form of
a> unrefereed preprints and technical reports will be classified as
such,
a> to distinguish it from the refereed literature, which will be tagged
a> with the imprimatur of the journal that refereed and accepted it for
a> publication, as it always has been.
a>
a> It will no longer be necessary for publishers to recover (and
research
a> libraries to pay) the substantial costs of producing and distributing
a> paper through ever-higher library subscription prices: Instead, it
will
a> be the beneficiaries of the global, unimpeded access to the learned
a> research literature -- the funders of the research and the employers
of
a> the researcher -- who will cover the much reduced costs of
implementing
a> peer review, editing, and archiving in the electronic medium alone,
in
a> the form of minimal page-charges, in exchange for instant, permanent,
a> worldwide access to the research literature for all, for free.
a>
a> If this arrangement strikes you as anomalous, consider that the real
a> anomaly was that the authors of the scientific and scholarly
periodical
a> research literature, who, unlike trade authors, never got (or
expected)
a> royalties for the sale of their texts -- on the contrary, so
important
a> was it to them that their work should reach all potentially
interested
a> fellow-researchers that they had long been willing to pay for the
a> printing and mailing of preprints and reprints to those who requested
a> them -- nevertheless had to consent to have access to their work
a> restricted to those who paid for it. This Faustian bargain was
> unavoidable in the Gutenberg age, because of the need to recover the
> high cost of producing and disseminating print on paper, but Paul
> Ginsparg has shown the way to launch the entire learned periodical
> literature into the PostGutenberg Galaxy, in which scientists and
> scholars can publish their work in the form of "skywriting": visible
> and available for free to all.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk
> Professor of Psychology harnad@princeton.edu
> Director, phone: +44 1703 592582
> Cognitive Sciences Centre fax: +44 1703 594597
>
> Department of Psychology http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
> University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/
> Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/
> SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/
>
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>
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> sci.psychology.research is a moderated newsgroup.
> Before submitting an article, please read the guidelines which are posted
> here bimonthly or the charter on the web at http://www.grohol.com/spr/
> Submissions are acknowledged automatically.
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Re: Archive for Papers in Cognitive and Biobehavioral Sciences
Author: Benjamin Godde
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:00
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David Smith wrote:
>
> Thank God, it is finally happening. I have long wished to have access
> to the peer-reviewed articles and academic literature. I hope that this
> continues and grows.
>
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
> a>
> a> To all cognitive and biobehavioral scientists:
> a>
> a> You are invited to archive your preprints and reprints in the
> a> CogPrints electronic archive.
It's a very good thing.
But, what's about the copyrights?
Most attempts in the past failed because of this problem, I guess.
First one has to convince the publishers to free the electronic
distribution of manuscripts.
Ben.
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DR. BEN GODDE (Benjamin.Godde@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Inst. Neuroinformatik, Theor. Biologie, Ruhr-Universitaet, D-44780
Bochum
phone: + (0)234 7007975 fax: + (0)234 7094209
http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/godde/top.html
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Re: Archive for Papers in Cognitive and Biobehavioral Sciences
Author: john smith
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00
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where can I find the URL for this site?
thanx
Gil Silberman
>David Smith wrote:
>>
>> Thank God, it is finally happening. I have long wished to have access
>> to the peer-reviewed articles and academic literature. I hope that this
>> continues and grows.
>>
>> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>> a>
>> a> To all cognitive and biobehavioral scientists:
>> a>
>> a> You are invited to archive your preprints and reprints in the
>> a> CogPrints electronic archive.
>
>It's a very good thing.
>But, what's about the copyrights?
>Most attempts in the past failed because of this problem, I guess.
>First one has to convince the publishers to free the electronic
>distribution of manuscripts.
>
>Ben.
>
>--
>DR. BEN GODDE (Benjamin.Godde@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
> Inst. Neuroinformatik, Theor. Biologie, Ruhr-Universitaet, D-44780
>Bochum
> phone: + (0)234 7007975 fax: + (0)234 7094209
> http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ini/PEOPLE/godde/top.html
>
>
>
>--
>
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> sci.psychology.research is a moderated newsgroup.
>Before submitting an article, please read the guidelines which are posted
>here bimonthly or the charter on the web at http://www.grohol.com/spr/
> Submissions are acknowledged automatically.
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Re: Archive for Papers in Cognitive and Biobehavioral Sciences
Author: David Smith
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00
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john smith wrote:
a>
a> where can I find the URL for this site?
It is at http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
a>
a> thanx
a> Gil Silberman
a>
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