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    Date:  Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:13:36 +0900
    From:  "Masamitsu Kuriyama" <mtkuri ＠ tokiwa.ac.jp>
    Subject:  [drf 0001] Fw:      Informal Polyglottal Contest: PostGutenberg Publish-or-Perish

    drfの皆様
    あまり役に立たない情報ですが、ちょっと話題提供ということで。
    すでにご存知の方もいらっしゃると思いますが、ハーナッド氏が
    Publish or perishに代わる新しいスローガンを募集しています。
    日本でも考えてみてはいかがでしょう。

    私もないセンスを振り絞って考えてみました。

    公開か崩壊か
    OAは光栄

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    ----- Original Message -----
    Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:07 PM
    Subject: Informal Polyglottal Contest: PostGutenberg Publish-or-Perish

    >             ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
    >
    > In the Gutenberg Galaxy of print-on-paper, right up to the present day,
    > researchers have had a quasi-universal "mandate" to make their findings
    > known: "Publish or Perish".
    >
    > The reason was that findings buried in a file drawer may as well not
    > have been found at all. Publishing the findings makes it possible for
    > other researchers to use, apply, and build upon them.
    >
    > In today's PostGutenberg Galaxy of globalised bits-on-line, we need
    > to generalize and universalise the old Gutenberg mandate in a simple
    > and natural way:
    >
    > Researchers need to maximise access and usage by making their research
    > freely accessible to all users online: instead of mailing paper reprints
    > of their articles to would-be users who request them, an inexhaustible
    > supply of online eprints needs to be provided by self-archiving all
    > published articles, free for all, in each researcher's Open Access
    > Institutional Repository.
    >
    > Prompted by a proposal by Alma Swan to find a catchy French PostGutenberg
    > gloss of "Publish or Perish," a number of candidates immediately come
    > to mind, both in English and in French. So let's have an (informal,
    > unofficial) contest. (No prize, but the winner is likely to become the
    > OA movement's slogan for the PostGutenberg extension of the Publish or
    > Perish mandate.)
    >
    > Please email candidates to me (harnad AT uqam dot ca), not to the
    > Forum. I will then post them collectively (with the names of proponents,
    > or anonymously: please indicate your preference) for a vote.
    >
    > Here are a few to get you started
    > Publish or Perish ---> Disseminate or Decease
    >                    OR Broadcast or Bury
    >                    OR Air or Expire
    >                    OR OA or Decay
    >                    OR Archive to Survive
    >                    OR Post or Ghost ...
    >
    > French:
    > Publier ou perir  ---> Diffuser ou Deceder...
    >
    > Multilingual entries are welcome! Alma Swan wrote:
    >
    >    "The challenge is - in all languages - to get the [new] wide meaning
    >    *and* the alliteration!" [fore or aft]
    >
    > (There is already a Hungarian gloss "Kiadsz vagy Kimaradsz" (roughly
    > "give out [= publish] or get left out"] by Tamas Somogyi of the Hungarian
    > National Digital Archive http://oai.nda.hu/somogyit/ and soon, I hope,
    > in Portuguese...)
    >
    > Stevan Harnad
    >
    >