Re: st: Stata Technical Bulletin

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

This debate is part of a larger debate.  This is what is happening 
locally (it had to happen):

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/02/13/harvard_faculty_votes_to_post_research_online/

m.p.

On 2/13/2008 5:36 AM, Ronan Conroy wrote:

> 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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