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International Foundation for Music Research / CogPrints
Dear List -
Enclosed are a couple of messages sent to me that might be of
interest. The first is an announcement of a new research-funding
body, the International Foundation for Music Research. Following that
are details of CogPrints, an initiative to establish an online archive
of preprints in Cognitive Science.
DAn.
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Date: 17 Jun 1998 21:29:19 U
From: "IFMR" <IFMR@namm.com>
Subject: New Source of Research Funding
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the establishment of the International Foundation for
Music Research. The goal of the Foundation is to promote and fund research in
the broad discipline of music and behavior. Substantial multi-year support is
available. Research proposals will be peer-reviewed. The initial deadline for
the receipt of proposals is Fall, 1998 with the first awards scheduled for the
first quarter of 1999. The Foundation also plans to support graduate
fellowships and award prizes for outstanding research papers in future years.
If you would like to receive further information, or consider submitting a
research proposal, or both, please respond to either the street address or
the e-mail address listed below, providing your complete name, street address,
telephone and fax number.
We hope to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Norman M. Weinberger, Ph.D.
Executive Director
International Foundation for Music Research
5790 Armada Drive, Suite 200
Carlsbad, CA 92008
e-mail: IFMR@music-research.org
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 10:47:40 +0100 (BST)
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@COGLIT.SOTON.AC.UK>
Subject: Invitation to archive your papers in CogPrints Archive
To all cognitive scientists (apologies if you receive this more than
once):
You are invited to archive your preprints and reprints in the
CogPrints electronic archive.
The Archive covers all the Cognitive Sciences:
Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Computer Science, Linguistics and Philosophy
CogPrints is completely free for everyone, both authors and readers,
thanks to a subsidy from the Electronic Libraries Programme of the
Joint Information Systems of the United Kingdom and the collaboration
of the NSF-supported Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos.
CogPrints has just been opened for public automatic archiving. This
means authors can now deposit their own papers automatically. The first
wave of papers had been invited and hand-archived by CogPrints in order
to set a model of the form and content of CogPrints.
To see the current holdings:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
To archive your own papers automatically:
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/author.html
All authors are encouraged to archive their papers on their home
servers as well.
For ferther information: admin@coglit.soton.ac.uk
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
(No need to read if you wish to proceed directly to the Archive.)
The objective of CogPrints is to emulate in the cognitive and
biobehavioral sciences the remarkable success of the NSF-subsidised
Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos
http://xxx.lanl.gov
The Physics Eprint Archive now makes available, free for all, over half
of the annual physics periodical literature, with its annual growth
strongly suggesting that it will not be long before it becomes the
locus classicus for all of the literature in Physics.
What this means is that anyone in the world with access to the Internet
(and that number too is rising at a breath-taking rate, and already
includes all academics, researchers and students in the West, and an
increasing proportion in the Third World as well) can now search and
retrieve virtually all current work in, for example, High Energy
Physics, much of it retroactive to 1990 when the Physics archive was
founded by Paul Ginsparg, who must certainly be credited by historians
with having launched this revolution in scientific and scholarly
publication (www-admin@xxx.lanl.gov).
Does this mean that learned journals will disappear? Not at all. They
will continue to play their traditional role of validating research
through peer review, but this function will be an "overlay" on the
electronic archives. The literature that is still in the form of
unrefereed preprints and technical reports will be classified as such,
to distinguish it from the refereed literature, which will be tagged
with the imprimatur of the journal that refereed and accepted it for
publication, as it always has been.
It will no longer be necessary for publishers to recover (and research
libraries to pay) the substantial costs of producing and distributing
paper through ever-higher library subscription prices: Instead, it will
be the beneficiaries of the global, unimpeded access to the learned
research literature -- the funders of the research and the employers of
the researcher -- who will cover the much reduced costs of implementing
peer review, editing, and archiving in the electronic medium alone, in
the form of minimal page-charges, in exchange for instant, permanent,
worldwide access to the research literature for all, for free.
If this arrangement strikes you as anomalous, consider that the real
anomaly was that the authors of the scientific and scholarly periodical
research literature, who, unlike trade authors, never got (or expected)
royalties for the sale of their texts -- on the contrary, so important
was it to them that their work should reach all potentially interested
fellow-researchers that they had long been willing to pay for the
printing and mailing of preprints and reprints to those who requested
them -- nevertheless had to consent to have access to their work
restricted to those who paid for it. This Faustian bargain was
unavoidable in the Gutenberg age, because of the need to recover the
high cost of producing and disseminating print on paper, but Paul
Ginsparg has shown the way to launch the entire learned periodical
literature into the PostGutenberg Galaxy, in which scientists and
scholars can publish their work in the form of "skywriting": visible
and available for free to all.
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Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology harnad@princeton.edu
Director, phone: +44 1703 592582
Cognitive Sciences Centre fax: +44 1703 594597
Department of Psychology http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/
University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/
Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/
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