Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 411.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:06:49 +0100
From: Joel Goldfield <joel@funrsc.fairfield.edu>
Subject: Re: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing
Willard McCarty replied in part my posting as follows:
"In regard to Harnad's advocacy of online self-archiving in Humanist
14.0388, my recent experiences in trawling the Web for publications on
hyperlinking and related matters come down strongly on his side."
I also prefer having more research rather than less. But I hope we
see colleagues observing etiquette concerning the linking of their
research to that of other's. Publication, with footnotes and the like,
formalizes that process. Self-archiving does not, and I have
found situations where colleagues who should have notified each other
of links to their self-archived, unpublished research did not. It's one
thing to mention and describe someone's work, another to link to it.
Like Willard, I thik we should encourage
self-archiving on the net, for with the various search engines and strategies,
more "kindred spirits" will find each other. The "scooping" that Willard
refers to may be a valid concern, I believe, when one is working on
an article, and the publisher requires that certain core material not
have been published elsewhere or if there's a momentous
humanities computing discovery in the offing (more power to us!).
But many of us seek comments on our work, such as before or after
delivering a paper,
or just to put the message out there la Vigny. Then the benefits of
self-archiving
or placing research in an easily found archive sponsored by an
umbrella organization are clear. Perhaps more of our professional
organizations would be interested in sponsoring such web spaces or
archival research space with the appropriate disclaimers, facilitating
present and future authors' finding each other amongst the dynamic
library's holdings.
Regards,
Joel Goldfield
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut
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