[GOAL] Re: citability of the list...

[keith.jeffery at stfc.ac.uk]

Richard, Laurent, all -

I have no problems with the open policy.  My caution is that among this (list members) knowledgeable community comments can be interpreted correctly in context.  Outside of the community comments on this list may be misunderstood or misinterpreted.  Thus I believe quotations outside of the list community must be done with some care and perhaps with additional contextual information.

Best
Keith
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Richard Poynder
Sent: 21 June 2012 15:22
To: goal at eprints.org
Cc: themailarchive at gmail.com
Subject: [GOAL] Re: citability of the list...

Dear Laurent,

GOAL is an open group and its messages are archived openly on the internet here: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/.

Moreover, thanks to the Mail Archive, there is now also a searchable archive here: http://www.mail-archive.com/goal@eprints.org/

As most list members will know, GOAL began life as the American Scientist Open Access Forum, or AmSci (http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html). With the kind assistance of the Mail Archive, we are hoping  that in the near future the AmSci archive will be amalgamated with the GOAL archive. If this proves successful, we will have a searchable database going back to 1998, when Stevan Harnad first launched AmSci. This would provide a valuable historical resource for anyone wanting to track and/or research the development and growth of the Open Access movement.

I regularly quote from contributions that have been made on the list.

Best wishes,



Richard Poynder
GOAL Moderator


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