Re: Books in Open access : OAPEN has been approved by EU

From: (wrong string) édon <jean.claude.guedon_at_umontreal.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:19:21 -0500

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It is hard to know if it differs from the GAP project when the URL
Thomas gave us leads only to one page with an e-mail. Can you
clarify, Thomas?

As for funding, research is funded by governments and publishing
should be made a part of research funding. Waving the fearful banner
of unreliable government funding is totally gratuitous here as

 1. Many government programs have been run for decades if not
    centuries. Scientific research is one of them;
 2. Private companies are jknown to go belly up with some regularity
    and then all hell breaks loose.

The reality is that all human endeavours are fragile, not only
governmental ones. As to the fickle nature of government policies, it
is rarely exceeded, except by the fickle nature of corporate
decisions driven, as they are, by stockholders' greed and the profit
motive.

Best,

Jean-Claude Guédon


Le dimanche 17 février 2008 à 16:21 +0600, Thomas Krichel a écrit :

 Jean Kempf writes

> The project is the first of its kind

  How does it differ from the (failed?) GAP project
  http://www.gap-portal.de/

> and, if funded, is intended to start in September 2008.

  Could not such a project be running without funding?
  Looking at GAP, it was ok when the DFG funded it,
  when that money ran out, it went South.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel

Jean-Claude Guédon
Université de Montréal
Received on Sun Feb 17 2008 - 16:32:40 GMT

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