And thank you very much indeed for doing so Alma.
As a matter of curiosity, why did you pay?
Richard Poynder
Freelance Journalist
www.richardpoynder.com
http://poynder.blogspot.com
>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 09:55:04 +0000
>Reply-To: Alma Swan <[log in to unmask]>
>Sender: Repositories discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Alma Swan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Poynder Again on Point on Institutional Repositories
>Comments: To: Philip J Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>I paid.
>
>Alma
>
>--- Philip J Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
> > Stevan,
> >
> > If your goal is 'immediately reachable' and has been
> > so for several
> > years, how come it has yet to be reached? I think
> > other factors are in
> > play beyond a plain inability to understand your
> > arguments. Or is it
> > that simple?
> >
> > I'd be interested to know if you (or anyone else)
> > paid Richard Poynder
> > the suggested $8 dollars to access his article.
> >
> >
>http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-littl
> > e.html
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Philip
> >
> > *********************************
> > Philip Hunter
> > IRIScotland
> > Digital Library Division
> > Edinburgh University Library
> > George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ
> > Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3768
> > *********************************
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Those who prefer leisurely fussing with the
> > curation/preservation of
> > arbitrary digital contents of any and every
> > description will of course
> > have plenty to keep them busy for decades. Eprints,
> > in contrast, has an
> > immediate, already-overdue mission to fulfil, and it
> > is becoming clearer
> > and clearer that -- with some prominent and
> > invaluable exceptions -- the
> > library community has found other rows to hoe.
> >
> > Richard has proposed that it might be time for a
> > parting of paths
> > between the Generic Digital Curation/Preservation IR
> > movement and the OA
> > IR movement, and he might be right. One has a
> > diffuse, divergent goal,
> > the other a focused, convergent -- and urgent and
> > immediately reachable
> > -- goal, one that might now be hamstrung if it is
> > subsumed under the
> > diffuse, divergent goal of the other.
> >
> > For the details, please see Richard's article.
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
> >
> > <snip>
> >
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