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De: John Meacham

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:53:01PM +0200, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

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Most authors do put their papers on their web pages nowadays.

On a side note, it is a little strange that the research community does the research, writes and typesets the papers, and does most (?) of the arrangements for the conferences, and still someone else gets the copyright. University libraries have to pay lots of money for access to publications. I may have missed some term in the equation, though.

knuth wrote an open letter on just this subject that was very interesting.. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf

I wonder if it would be okay to make a meta-web page that points to each authors homepage where they have their papers for each person that presented at a conference.

I certainly think we should somehow centralize an index to papers on haskell. I have found it extremely difficult to track down papers for authors that have since moved out of academia or have passed on and don't have their personal homepages with their papers anymore.

John

There are already some free repositories of papers: http://arxiv.org/ http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/ But a "Haskell-only" repository will be interesting. Antonio Regidor García ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es