From: richard a. <ric...@ya...> - 2006-11-19 01:04:28
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--- Christoph Steinbeck <c.s...@un...> wrote: > Peter Ertl wrote: > > The article features (or better featured, the IJC > site seems to be > > dead) a nice applet allowing people to run > interactively various types > > of diversity selection algorithm and compare the > results. BTW, Peter, if you still have a copy of the article, I'd really be interested in one. > > As I said, the IJC site is now dead. Maybe this is > one reason why > > authors do not trust too much the new open access > journals. Which of > > them will be alive in 10 years? > > Peter, > > thanks a lot for contributing to the Blue-Obelisk > List :-) > > I can only second what Rich already replied. Open > Access *is* the model of the > future since it gives us back the rights for our > work. > > The problem with disappearing content is also one of > the regular publishers - > where are their archives going when they die. It's > just a question of likelihood > of dying :-) > > Also, I think, it is a responsibility of societies > (as in: all the people in > Germany) to make sure their knowledge doesn't die. > Certainly if they consider > themselves to be a "Wissensgesellschaft" ("knowledge > societies"). > > One way towards this is putting things in > institutional repositories - the > University of Cologne has a much higher likelihood > of being around in 100 years > than any of the regular publisher that I know. > > A second way is national libraries and their > archival initiatives. The German > National Library is now required by law to archive > whatever appeares on the net > in Germany (Within certain boundaries, but > scientific articles certainly are > part of this mission). Also the private sector. A sustainable business model has yet to be developed. But then again, that's what they uesed to say about Google. > On remark at the end: the fact that the IJC site is > down and that the archive > has not been made accessible somewhere else is > *very* depressing. > > Cheers, > > Christoph > > -- > PD Dr. Christoph Steinbeck > (c.s...@un...) > Head of the Research Group for Molecular Informatics > Cologne University BioInformatics Center > (http://almost.cubic.uni-koeln.de) > Zülpicher Str. 47, 50674 Cologne > Tel: +49(0)221-470-7426 Fax: +49 (0) 221-470-7786 > > ____________________________ Richard Apodaca Blog: http://depth-first.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $310k for $999/mo. Calculate new payment! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre |