Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 462.
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: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:40:32 +0000
From: Jennifer De Beer <jennifer_de_beer@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0394 self-archiving & online publishing
[Apologies for the belated publication; this message went astray
somehow.... --WM]
Willard and Colleagues:
> I wonder, though, if everyone would self-archive. To
> what degree are people
> in the humanities, say, worried about someone else
> "scooping" them?
Having attended a presentation by Herbert Van de
Sompel (one of the founding figures of the Open
Archives initiative) on the OAi (then called the
Universal Preprint Service) I was led to understand
that self-archiving would in fact play the role of
registration of the/my idea within the relevant
academic community, thus eliminating the need for
concerns around 'scooping'. How successfully this
works in practice I'm unsure. Recognition of such
self-archiving may also be related to how established
such an archiving service is.
It is also my impresion that (some of) those in the
Humanities feel that such fast turn-around times on
Humanities research might be detrimental to the
discipline. It is as if the pot needs to simmer a
little longer than cf. those in the hard sciences.
Erroneous! I believe, but indeed sadly true.
What may also retard the adoption of self-archiving
within the Humanities is that, I suppose, the majority
of those outside Humanities Computing units generally
lack the know-how to self-archive.
Regards,
Jennifer De Beer
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Jennifer De Beer
Spanish & Linguistics - University of South Africa
IT - Stellenbosch University, SA
*It's not the 90s anymore*
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