TY - GEN ID - cogprints1642 UR - http://cogprints.org/1642/ A1 - Harnad, Stevan Y1 - 2001/04// N2 - Unlike the authors of books and magazine articles, who write their texts for royalty or fee income, the authors of refereed journal articles write them only for "research impact", which means for their effects on research and researchers. In order to reach researchers and to have an effect on their research (so the latter can use the findings in their own work), these refereed journal articles have to be accessible to their potential users. Hence, the idea that access to them should be toll-gated in any way makes as much sense as toll-gated access to commercial advertisements. KW - self-archiving KW - electronic publishing KW - refereed literature TI - The Self-Archiving Initiative SP - 1024 AV - public EP - 1025 ER -