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Re: st: Stata Technical Bulletin
On 12 Feb 2008, at 19:14, Richard Williams wrote:
On my wish list for the future - Through my school, I have e-access
to hundreds, maybe thousands of journals. I wish Stata Journal was
among them. I have my own subscription, but I'd like it to be the
case that scholars everywhere had easy access to SJ, just like they
do other journals. It increases the likelihood of the work being
read and cited. I don't know if it is in StataCorp's best economic
interest to provide such access, but anything that helps to spread
the word about Stata probably doesn't hurt.
Many journals provide free access to back issues, which varies from
articles published more than a year ago to articles published more
than three year ago.
I would agree with Richard here. I doubt if making older articles
from SJ available freely would hurt subscriptions, and, indeed, it
might encourage them. And I doubt whether purchases of back issues of
the journal is a significant source of revenue, though I could be wrong.
Since authors provide content to the Stata Journal free of charge, it
seems reasonable that when the Stata journal has benefited from this
content for a period of time, it should then be made available to
others on the same basis on which it was made available to the
journal in the first place - freely.
The continued existence of the SJ relies on their being able to
publish profitably, but perhaps the value of the journal to science
and society would be increased by making older articles freely
available.
P Before printing, think about the environment
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