My dear native Hungarian friend,
As the golden way eats all my time currently, only a short note:
Sorry for responding polemically in my former mail ;-) -- for sure I am
convinced that you know about the SHERPA/ROMEO bias: it was this "Japan
differs …," "The Japanese survey results do not …," "The Japanese survey
was not …" rhetoric in Interpretations I to III which reminded me to a
simple but in my opinion crucial problem:
In http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php we talk about
the need for self-archiving of "95% -- the articles published yearly in
the 22,500 toll-access journals," compared to 1,500 (5%) open-access
journals ((we should revise this ;-)). These numbers -- like for example
the Berlin Declaration -- include sciences AND humanities, and with the
humanities the question of national publishing cultures is evident and
should be more closely discussed and acknowledged in the international
open access movement. Chris Armbruster together with colleagues asked
for a session on Open Access in the Social Sciences and Humanities
during the coming Berlin 4 conference, Golm; no response as far as I
know …
In a way it seems as if the request for self-archiving, addressed to the
international science AND humanities communities and visible for example
in the Registry of Open Access Repository on the one hand, and
SHERPA/ROMEO (http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php) on the other do not
know about each other. Jaja, different purposes, but why should social
sciences & humanities self-archive if SHERPA/ROMEO (and other parts of
the OA comm..) are not interested in their (often national) highest
quality research. (Btw: with the Internet, in German toll-access
humanities and social sciences journals a growing number of English
articles seems to be published, as a growing number of non-German
authors is visible and addressable via the Web …)
> But doesn't the simple, feasible task of providing 100% OA -- already long overdue because > fettered for a decade with irrelevant distractions and deterrents -- have enough on its platte > > already without having to re-direct western european history too?
Naja: modest words from a man who started to challenge centuries not
only of the Western European Gutenberg science history by working
continuously on the open access movement since its very beginning ;-)
Ein schoenes Wochenende!
Katja
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Dr. Katja Mruck
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Center fuer Digitale Systeme (CeDiS)
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