[UPS] Click-Through Monopoly

[Stevan Harnad]

Hi All,

By my lights, this is a Trojan Horse: a click through monopoly,
firewalled by site-licenses and/or micropayments, trying to
weld in place the status quo.

The literature must be freed, and the citation linking and navigation
must be free.

More anon.

Caveat Emptor.

Stevan

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Mark Doyle wrote:

> > From: Michael Friedman <friedman@highwire.stanford.edu>
> > Date: 1999-11-17 13:45:09 -0500
> 
> > Open Archiving folk,
> >
> > I was just made aware of an interesting proposal for Online Journal
> > Citation linking.
> > Take a look at <http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32592,00.html>
> > if you are interested.
> >
> > This is all the info I know; HighWire has not been officially asked to
> > do anything for the journals we publish, yet.
> 
> Boy, is this thing being overhyped. It made it into the NY Times,
> news.cnet.com, Cronicle of Higher Education, blah, blah, blah. Personally, I  
> think it is a step backwards, at least in the realm of physics (APS will not  
> be participating anytime soon). The DOI system for linking journal articles  
> in physics introduces more problems and expenses than it solves. Much better  
> is something like Hellman's S-Links-S (LinkOpenly now I think). No time now  
> for a full rant now, but I think people should be very careful before
> creating DOI's for their works and before buying into a DOI system as their  
> primary linking interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> 
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