Re: access vs. poor scholarship

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

Granted, access is very important, but if the access is only to the
postprint and that leads to people pursuing sloppy habits of
scholarship, then it is a mixed blessing for sure.

Sandy Thatcher


>On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Sandy Thatcher wrote:
>
>>... it would be dangerous to rely on the postprint solely and
>>quote from it since the final editing may well have caught
>>errors and made other changes in the peer-reviewed draft.
>
>Dangerous?
>
>I am afraid that discussions like this are always at
>cross-purposes, because one party to the discussion is comparing
>the luxury of having access to the copy-edited draft with just
>having access to the refereed final draft whereas the other party
>is comparing the necessity of having access to the refereed final
>draft with having no access at all. To this second party, the
>"danger" Sandy refers to sounds truly risible, compared to the
>genuine danger of no access at all. And it is the latter (not
>"which"-hunting) that OA is about, and for.
>
>Stevan Harnad