
Steve Koonin's initiative is commendable, but it should not be pursued only by Cal Tech but by all universities and research institutions. Indeed, it is being pursued implicitly by all researchers who submit their preprints and reprints to the Los Alamos Physics Preprint Archive http://xxx.lanl.gov
See the ongoing American Scientist discussion Forum on this same topic:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september-forum.html
As well as my 10 September article in Nature
about it:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/nature.html
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- -- Stevan Harnad, Professor of Cognitive Science, Southampton University (posted 9/15, 9:30 a.m., E.D.T.)
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