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Discipline Differences in Benefits/Feasibility of Open Access?

Stevan Harnad harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Nov 24 15:02:35 EST 2002


On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, JQ Johnson wrote:

> I think my point in Chemistry was that the discipline believed that they
> did in fact have a concern that trumped "maximizing their research
> impact".  They had to withold publication (including witholding
> preprints) until AFTER the patent application was filed.  They believe
> that they have found a reasonable compromise that fosters maximized
> research impact within the constraints of that system, but it is one
> that does not permit a preprint culture.  Without a preprint culture,
> it's much harder to establish eprints or institutional repository, even
> though these are logically separable.  One question in Chemistry is
> whether we can find alternative sells (giving up on eprints).  For
> example, we might focus on post-peer-publication deposit of raw data.
> 
> A similar concern is those disciplines where the intellectual product is
> more like art than science (fine arts, music, dance, etc.).  Again, no
> preprint culture, and hence (perhaps) little interest in institutional
> repositories.  On the other hand, in some cases they do have a portfolio
> culture.  In these and English, the sell will be, I think, the new
> functionality provided by making available AFTER the fact a history of
> the intellectual product -- we'll encourage authors to save the drafts
> of their books or paintings in our repository, and release them as a set
> after the final product is available.  Or we'll focus on archival of
> instructional materials.
> 
> Back to preprints, though, can we identify other disciplines that do
> have histories of preprints or tech reports?  Some areas of psychology,
> obviously.  [aside: do you have data from Psyprints on which areas of
> psychology have been fastest to adopt eprints?]  Maybe some areas of
> biology.  I don't know enough about the grey literature in most
> engineering disciplines (since my university doesn't have an engineering
> school).  Do you know of any systematic studies of the grey literature
> in academia?
> 
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