Friends: A few minutes ago I forwarded a message from Prof. Stevan Harnad addressed to me and Prof. Krishnaswamy of MKU to the oa-india and lis-forum lists. Here is a message from Prof. Harnad about depositing papers in OA archives. Certainly Prof. Harnad would not advocate violating the law. Best wishes. Arun ----- Dear Arun, Sure, that's fine. But could I ask then that you modify (2) to add that I do not myself recommend 3rd-party posting without authorization? Otherwise it gives the impression that I am recommending breaking the law. Point (3) should also be modified for public posting, to make it clear that the author (*only*), if he no longer has the digital text of his own article, can scan in and OCR the published PDF for his own article, but should then convert it back to his own original typescript. The way I said it below makes it look as if I am advocating piracy, which I am not. Best wishes. Stevan Friends: A few minutes ago I forwarded a message from Prof. Stevan Harnad addressed to me and Prof. Krishnaswamy of MKU to the oa-india and lis-forum lists. Here is a message from Prof. Harnad about depositing papers in OA archives. Certainly Prof. Harnad would not advocate violating the law. Best wishes. Arun ----- Dear Arun, Sure, that's fine. But could I ask then that you modify (2) to add that I do not myself recommend 3rd-party posting without authorization? Otherwise it gives the impression that I am recommending breaking the law. Point (3) should also be modified for public posting, to make it clear that the author (*only*), if he no longer has the digital text of his own article, can scan in and OCR the published PDF for his own article, but should then convert it back to his own original typescript. The way I said it below makes it look as if I am advocating piracy, which I am not. Best wishes. Stevan