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The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement

The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement
The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement
When print was the only medium of dissemination, there was no alternative to toll-gated access. The web era has provided a method of liberating the refereed research literature online without giving up journals or peer review, and without violating copyright. This "Self-Archiving Initiative" is swift and certain, tried and true, well within reach and long overdue. To free this literature virtually overnight, all its authors need do is to self-archive their own portion of it online in their institution's "e-print" archive. Free archive-creating software (http://www.eprints.org) is now available to make all such institutional e-print archives "interoperable" (www.openarchives.org), hence "harvestable" into one global virtual archive (http://cite-base.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search) -- free for everyone, everywhere, forever. For the details, see http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm.
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Harnad, Stevan
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Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b

Harnad, Stevan (2001) The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement. New Scientist, 2292, 53.

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Abstract

When print was the only medium of dissemination, there was no alternative to toll-gated access. The web era has provided a method of liberating the refereed research literature online without giving up journals or peer review, and without violating copyright. This "Self-Archiving Initiative" is swift and certain, tried and true, well within reach and long overdue. To free this literature virtually overnight, all its authors need do is to self-archive their own portion of it online in their institution's "e-print" archive. Free archive-creating software (http://www.eprints.org) is now available to make all such institutional e-print archives "interoperable" (www.openarchives.org), hence "harvestable" into one global virtual archive (http://cite-base.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search) -- free for everyone, everywhere, forever. For the details, see http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm.

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Published date: 2001
Additional Information: Published as "In the Name of Freedom"
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 255949
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/255949
ISSN: 0262-4079
PURE UUID: 6ca57d22-6c5f-40b5-b8bf-5abe645c251f
ORCID for Stevan Harnad: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-1129

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Date deposited: 19 Jun 2001
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Stevan Harnad ORCID iD

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