st: RE: Stata Technical Bulletin

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Marcello said

This debate is part of a larger debate.  This is what is happening
locally (it had to happen):

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/02/13/ 
harvard_faculty_votes_to_post_research_online/

m.p.


The interesting thing about Harvard's plan is that it is mandatory  
for faculty to do so (although there is an opt-out). [Note also that  
this is the Arts & Sciences faculty, not the university, so that it  
has no direct impact as I understand it on, e.g., the Harvard School  
of Public Health faculty]. The management of the Stata Journal has  
never objected to a preprint of a SJ article appearing in an  
institutional repository or disciplinary repository (such as RePEc),  
making that article (such as Baum-Schaffer-Stillman SJ 2003) more  
readily available than it would be otherwise.

Nevertheless I agree with Ronan. I think it would be very useful to  
the community of the SJ adopted a 'moving wall' policy and made  
articles more than three years old freely available (that would  
imply, for instance, Vols. 1-4 at this time). Unless StataCorp is  
generating sizable revenues from back-issue sales, I can't see why  
that would be a bad idea. And making "official" copies available  
might even help with one of our major goals: getting SJ indexed in  
Web of Science / Social Science Research Index. It is great that it  
is indexed in the Science/Math index, but that does little good to  
those of us in the social sciences, and there are many SJ articles  
that fall in that category.

Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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