Re: paleonet The threat of the Publishing Crises to Paleontology

["Xavier Panades I Blas" <cogombra@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think we will have to lobby governments et al, to alter some laws in order 
to digitalised most of the palaeontological and other journals. Unless some 
laywer could provide us with a loophole there!

I am personally very surprised that there is not a company that has done the 
job!



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From: "Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@gmx.net>
Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet The threat of the Publishing Crises to Paleontology
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:37:09 +0200 (MEST)


Sounds like a great idea but I am not sure I understand how that should work
and be legal (or is this not a requirement, ;-). Just some questions:

1) Is this meant to be some type of exchange borse for papers? or some
server where people (who?) can up- and download papers?

2) I am not even sure I don't violate any copyrights uploading my own papers
to this server, less so from others. It is even not allowed to give the
journals you subscribed to to the library (before x years, I think 5, in
Spain only, or globally?)

3) We certainly don't want to harm the institutional publishers, so there
must be some control on the source selection. Papers from which journals can
be uploaded?

4) Or do we prepare a searchable database for papers with a link to the
person who has it? Well, bad idea, probably some colleagues will be quite
busy to provide the copies, I guess.

I think, one has to evaluate point 2) first.

Cheers,

Niko


 > I think this is a great idea, and I'd be more than willing to help. If
 > people just did one article a day, even, it would make a serious impact.
But
 > perhaps we should go about it in an organised way? Otherwise we will get
 > several copies of the same paper scanned by half a dozen people at least,
 > while some papers get passed over. Plus no-one will know where to look 
for
 > anything!
 >
 > Breandán
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Phil Bock" <pbock@deakin.edu.au>
 > > Seeking funding for this as a megaproject
 > > should be commenced, but in the meantime, if everyone with access
 > > to a scanner and website started  ... who knows what might happen?
 >
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