On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, [identity deleted] wrote:

> I've written to you a couple of times asking for permission to forward
> posts to my serials class list, and you very graciously granted me the OK.
> Now I have a question. I know that in reality things are not so simple as
> the one biggest issue, yet if you had to say what is the biggest obstacle to
> open access, open or self- archives, what would it be? This is not an
> assignment question.  I'm just curious about what you might think.

Good question. I think I can rank-order the at-least 30 obstacles (all
groundless, all easily shown to be groundless), but I can't assign them
absolute weights (i.e., what percentage of the non-self-archived
papers/authors are not self-archived for this reason or for that).

So here is the list which started with
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0819.html
and evolved through "For Whom the Gate Tolls"
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm
to eventually make its way into the Self-Archiving Faq
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/

I have here re-ordered and sub-grouped it to reflect what I think is
the rank-order of the inhibitory effects of the 9 main superordinate
categories:

(1) 10. Copyright http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#10.Copyright

(2) 7. Peer review http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer
        5. Certification http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Certification
        6. Evaluation http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#6.Evaluation
        22. Tenure/Promotion http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#22.Tenure
        13. Censorship http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#13.Censorship

(3) 29. Sitting pretty http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#29.Sitting

(4) 1. Preservation http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#1.Preservation
        2. Authentication http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#2.Authentication
        3. Corruption http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#3.Corruption
        23. Version control http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#23.Version
        25. Mark-up http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#25.Mark-Up
        26. Classification http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#26.Classification
        16. Graphics http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#16.Graphics
        15. Readability http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#5.Readability
        21. Serendipity http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#21.Serendipity
        4. Navigation (info-glut) http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#4.Navigation
        18. Libraries'/Librarians' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#18.Libraries

(5) 19. Learned Societies' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#19.Learned

(6) 17. Publishers' future http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#17 Publishers
        8. Paying the piper http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#8.Paying
        9. Downsizing http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#9.Downsizing
        14. Capitalism http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#14.Capitalism
        24. Napster http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#24.Napster

(7)    20. University conspiracy http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#20.University
            30. Rechanneling toll-savings http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#30.Rechanneling
            28. Affordability  http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#28.Affordability

(8) 12. Priority http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#12.Priority
            27. Secrecy http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#27.Secrecy

(9) 11. Plagiarism http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#11. Plagiarism

Stevan Harnad

NOTE: Complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02 & 03):
    http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html
    http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
    Posted discussion to: september98-forum@amsci-forum.amsci.org

Dual Open-Access Strategy:
    BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access
            journal whenever one exists.
    BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable
            toll-access journal and also self-archive it.
    http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin.htm
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