Re: How to fund open access journals from available sources

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@worldnet.att.net>]

Well, I'm sorry, but this is dead wrong.  We are talking about the
PUBLICATION of research here, not research itself.  It is a literary
genre, not a scientific methodology.  In other words, it requires a
poetics.  Has anything in recent memory transormed the dissemination of
information more than Google, but who could ever have demonstrated
scientifically what Google would come to mean?  We are not talking about
ideas but their tangible expression.

As for the '60s, I am writing this with the Beatles playing in the
background:  four musicians who achieved more collectively than any one of
them could do on his own.

You will have your opportunity to do your studies with excellent
methodology, but you won't be doing them as a scientist and you certainly
won't be doing them as a publisher; you will be doing them as a historian.

Joe Esposito

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elena Fraboschi" <elena@inca.math.indiana.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: How to fund open access journals from available sources

> Pardon me, but I think that this is political creed (laudable or not,
> according to one's ideas):
>
> > OA is one part of the evolution from author-based fixed expression to
> > community-based dynamic expression. We have to begin to conceive of
> > articles not as "papers" but as nodes on a network.  It's time that we
> > all began to stand on the shoulders of giants.
>
> The only way I could embrace this *as science* is if someone showed me
> studies with excellent methodology demonstrating that the stimulation
> stemming from collective work where authorship is diffuse achieves
> intellectual heights greater than that achieved by "individual giants".
> (I am reminded that all kinds of experiments were run in the 60's in the
> domain of the arts - and most of us cannot recall a single work from that
> period.)
>
> OA is well worth debating - but I hope to focus on this:
>
> > OA articles can be seamlessly integrated and aggregated, simultaneously
> > searched, linked to citations and semantically similar texts
>
> rather than on poetics.  Best, Elena Fraboschi