I've amended my earlier comment on point 7
-----Original Message----- From: Radford, Peter Sent: 10 July 2002 08:56 To: TC6 Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] IFIP Publication Policy
Augusto, et al
I've comments on just two points:
7. This ought to make clear (if that is the intention) that TC6 expects the publisher to provide the CDs and at some reasonable price (say, less than 5 Euros). I talked to three companies offering CD-ROM replication services today and, despite all the variables (such as number of copies, what sort of printing on the CD and what sort of packaging) got a reasonably consistent response of about 3 Euros/CD. That sounds a lot in comparison with the price of a raw CD but there is a non-trivial amount of work involved. (Incidentally two companies said there was a breakpoint at 500 copies in terms of whether they simply copied the CD or made a physical master and pressed the CDs.)
8. If a paper is available on the author's web site (or authors' web sites), why should anyone pay for it from the publisher (see point 2)? How about demanding that authors be allowed to put the free information (see point 3) on their public web-sites but also be allowed to distribute electronic copies, if they wish? That way we don't totally undermine the financial benefit to the electronic publishers (which ultimately means money for TC6) but we do allow the authors to show what they've done to the world and (if they are willing to go to the trouble of sending out electronic copies) to let individuals see the full works.
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 09 July 2002 14:35 To: TC6 Subject: [ifip-tc6] IFIP Publication Policy
Dear all,
Sometime ago I circulated a document from TC5 with a proposal for the IFIP publication policy. I received comments from Arun Iyengar, Guy Leduc, Harry Rudin and Lyman Chapin. I tried to put together some of these comments and my own ideas in a short document that I attach to this mail. Please let me know whether I can distribute this document within IFIP as a TC6 view or if I should change it.
Please let me have your comments until this coming Friday. I wish to send it to IFIP on that evening.
Best regards
Augusto
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