Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd)
Guedon Jean-Claude (guedon@ERE.UMontreal.CA)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:10:53 -0500 (EST)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:10:53 -0500 (EST) From: Guedon Jean-Claude <guedon@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: Library Link discussion (fwd) To: arl-ejournal@arl.org In-Reply-To: <v02110116b2e18789791f@[203.37.43.24]> Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9902061042.C22655-0100000@esi25.ESI.UMontreal.CA>
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Tony Barry <tonyb@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 5/2/99, Carol Goodson <cgoodson@westga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I believe that if you continue to hold all rights to your work, it
> > limits the journal publisher from making deals with commercial indexers
> > to include the journal content in published indexes and/or full-text
> > databases... although I'm as eager to profit as the next person, I
> > think I ultimately prefer what I write to be retrievable by others,
> > and thus possibly useful.
>
> Everything I write I publish on my own web server
> <http://Tony-Barry.emu.id.au/people/tony/publications.html> which
> ensure it gets into any web robot which passes by. I seem to get a
> steady stream of hits from users. In discussion I can refer to a
> paper I have written and give the URL and ensure that those that I
> talk to can access the material directly without needing a library.
>
> The way of the net is making the grey literature and self material and
> preprint server contents easier to find and access that the "white"
> literature.
Tony is pointing to a very interesting fact in the last paragraph of his
message below. I have long argued that whatever is not digitized will
end p being marginalized, exactly as all that wa snot printed ended up
largely neglected or the province of a few erudites. Amusingly, the
copyright issue is either slowing down the digitization of commercial
documents or putting added friction to its circulation. Where
commercial documents are the only players, it does not matter at all,
but in the area of scholarly publishing, where non-commercial players
are already present and new ones are appearing (e.g. Ginsparg's archive
at Los Alamos in high energy physics and related fields), commercial
publishers may soon encounter huge difficulties. And as Tony points
out, grey literature is coming to the fore too because of this general
process. Witness the efforts to put theses on-line in various parts of
the world (Virginia Tech with Ed. Fox, my own university with the
Presses de l'Universite de Montreal with other universities in Quebec,
Lyon-2 in France, in collaboration with Montreal, etc...).
The pecking order of documents is going to be affected by the new
context even as it generates new rules.
jc
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