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                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 374.
           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: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:59:16 +0000
             From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK>
             Subject: Re: HighWire Press's Free Online Archive

    [The following forwarded with thanks to the Electronic Journal Publishing
    List <VPIEJ-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU>. --WM]

    > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Peter Suber wrote:
    >
    > > * HighWire Press is now the world's largest free online archive of
    articles
    > > in the life sciences and overall second only on to the NASA's
    Astrophysics
    > > Data System. HighWire now hosts 100 journals that provide free online
    > > access to their full-texts, including back issues, and it recently
    hosted
    > > its 330,000th free online article.

    P.S. HighWire is not second only to the NASA archive. The NECI
    Scientific Literature Digital Library http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
    (which describes itself as "Earth's largest free full-text index of
    scientific literature"), though it too may not be the largest, is,
    with 500,000+ free online articles in computer science, bigger than
    HighWire's free online collection.

    But no one should be crowing about being the biggest while the
    more (and perhaps much more) than at least 2 million articles
    that appear EVERY YEAR in the world's 20,000 refereed journals
    are still far from free online.

    http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb
    http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/newarl/index.html

    All the totals mentioned are just cumulative totals across the years.
    The Physics Archive [http://arxiv.org], for example, has over 150,000
    articles, but cumulated across 10 years! At that rate, even for this
    most advanced of all the self-archiving disciplines, the year 2011 will
    be the first in which ALL the articles published in physics that
    year will be accessible for free for all:

    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img001.htm

    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img002.htm

    This is why institution-based self-archiving now needs to be vigorously
    supported and promoted to fast-forward us all to the optimal and
    inevitable for research and researchers.

          Harnad, S. (2001) The Self-Archiving Initiative. Nature 410: 1024-1025
          http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/nature4.htm
          Nature WebDebates version:
          http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/index.html
          Fuller version:
          The Author/Institution Self-Archiving Initiative to Free the Refereed
          Research Literature Online.
          http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/selfarch.htm

    All interested parties are invited to join the international discussion
    on this (in 3 languages!) currently going on from Nov 15 - Nov 30 at:
    http://text-e.org/

    Stevan Harnad

    NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free
    access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the
    American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01):

          http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
                                  or
          http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html

    You may join the list at the amsci site.

    Discussion can be posted to:

          september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org

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