Integrating Universities' Thesis and Research Deposit Mandates (2009)
A growing number of universities are beginning to require the digital deposit of their thesis and dissertation output in their institutional repositories. At the same time, a growing number of...
COMMENTARY ON: Citing and Reading Behavours in High-Energy Physics (arXiv:0906.5418) (2009)
Evidence confirming that OA increases impact will not be sufficient to induce enough researchers to provide OA; only mandates from their institutions and funders can ensure that. HEP researchers...
Concepts: The Very Idea (2009)
Machery (2009) suggests that the concept of “concept” is too heterogeneous to serve as a “natural kind” for scientific explanation, so cognitive science should do without concepts. I second...
DEBATE: Institutional repository success is dependent upon mandates (2009)
Without universal institutional deposit mandates, institutional open-access repositories will continue to languish near-empty, as most them are now. Hence Institutional repository success is...
Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access (2009)
Open Access (OA) will not come until universities, the universal research-providers, make it part of their mandate not only to publish their research findings, as now, but also to see to it that the...
On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution (2009)
Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have...
Brian Rotman argues that (one) 'mind' and (one) 'god' are only conceivable, literally, because of (alphabetic) literacy, which allowed us to designate each of these ghosts as an incorporeal,...
On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution (2009)
Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have...
On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution (2009)
Jerry Fodor argues that Darwin was wrong about "natural selection" because (1) it is only a tautology rather than a scientific law that can support counterfactuals ("If X had happened, Y would have...
Brian Rotman argues that (one) "mind" and (one) "god" are only conceivable, literally, because of (alphabetic) literacy, which allowed us to designate each of these ghosts as an incorporeal,...
Scholarly SkyWriting at the Speed of Thought (2009)
Language co-evolved with human cognition 300,000 years ago and made distributed, interactive thought possible; the invention of writing preserved thought, making science and scholarship possible, but...
Interview on Open Access with Dr. Stevan Harnad (2009)
Kellat, Stephen Michael, Harnad, Stevan
In light of the recent Conyers bill that would remove the NIH mandate on Open Access, LISTen (LISNews.org) talked to Dr. Harnad about Open Access so that librarians may learn more about it.
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2009)
"Cognizing" (i.e., thinking, understanding, knowing, and having the capacity to do what cognizers can do) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2009)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise (2009)
Scientometric predictors of research performance need to be validated by showing that they have a high correlation with the external criterion they are trying to predict. The UK Research Assessment...
Cognition, Cognitive Technology and the Web (2009)
In modeling human cognitive capacity there is a question of what needs to be built in and what can be left out, because we can offload it onto cognitive technology, such a google web search. Word...
From Sensorimotor Categories to Grounded Symbols (2009)
Once you can produce and understand a proposition at all, you can produce and understand any and every proposition. Propositions are all statements about category membership. So once you have made...
Offloading Cognition onto the Web (2009)
In modeling human cognitive capacity there is a question of what needs to be built in and what can be left out, because we can offload it onto cognitive technology, such as a google web search. Word...
Language and the Game of Life (2008)
Sciences (to appear) (2041 words of text without references)
There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This paper describes the...
No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access, ” (OA) by selfarchiving...
Grounding Abstract Word Definitions In Prior Concrete Experience (2008)
Chicoisne, Guillaume, Blondin-Masse, Alexandre, Picard, Olivier, Harnad, Stevan
Longman’s Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and Cambridge International Dictionary of English (CIDE) have a defining vocabulary of 2000 words from which most but not all of the words are...
Acquiring the Mental Lexicon Through Sensorimotor Category Learning (2008)
St-Louis, Bernard, Corbeil, Marieve, Achim, Andre, Harnad, Stevan
We report the electrophysiological correlates of learning a new category through either direct sensorimotor experience (E) or verbal definition (V). (1) Ss who successfully learned to categorize and...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2008)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
: Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. For 1,600 of the 11,000 articles (15%), their authors paid the publisher to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome,...
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes (2008)
Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet according to his theory, not only are...
Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology (2008)
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Offloading cognition onto cognitive technology (2008)
Dror, Itiel E., Harnad, Stevan
"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not...
Davis (2008) analyzes citations from 2004-2007 in 11 biomedical journals. 15% of authors paid to make them Open Access (OA). The outcome is a significant OA citation Advantage, but a small one (21%)....
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact (2008)
John Wiley, Tim Brody, Stevan Harnad, Leslie Carr, Tim Brody, Stevan Harnad, ...
bibliographic citations < bibliographic records < document surrogates < (documents by information content, purpose) < (document types), citation indexes < indexes (information...
for the following three pleas to publishers and authors: It is imperative to free the refereed literature online. To achieve this goal, the following should be done: (i) Established journal...
professional publishing at the Publishers Association, criticises the Research Councils UK (RCUK) proposal to require that the author of every published article based on RCUK-funded research must...
Publishing (Oxford) Limited, Chapter 8. Opening Access by Overcoming Zeno's Paralysis (2008)
ABSTRACT: Open Access (OA) means free access for all would-be users webwide to all articles published in all peer-reviewed research journals across all scholarly and scientific disciplines. 100 % OA...
First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling (2008)
n.html ABSTRACT: Consciousness is feeling, and the problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why some of the functions underlying some of our performance capacities are felt...
What It Feels Like To Hear Voices: Fond Memories of Julian Jaynes (2008)
Julian Jaynes's profound humanitarian convictions not only prevented him from going to war, but would have prevented him from ever kicking a dog. Yet according to his theory, not only are...
Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access (2008)
Universities (the universal research-providers) as well as research funders (public and private) are beginning to make it part of their mandates to ensure not only that researchers conduct and...
Mandate Open Access to Maximising Research Progress (2008)
Research is funded by public taxes in order to provide benefits for the public in the form of the growth of knowledge and applications. The reason universities and research funders mandate that...
The annotation game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery and Intelligence (2008)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think? " (Turing 1950) Turing starts on an equivocation. We know now that what he will go on to consider is not whether or not...
ABSTRACT: Kravchenko (2007) suggests replacing Turing’s suggestion for explaining cognizers’ cognitive capacity through autonomous robotic modelling by ‘autopoiesis’, Maturana’s extremely...
Digitometric Services for Open Archives Environments (2008)
Tim Brody, Simon Kampa, Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Steve Hitchcock
Abstract. We describe “digitometric ” services and tools that add value to open-access eprint archives using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Celestial is an...
First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling (2008)
Abstract: Consciousness is feeling, and the problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why some of the functions underlying some of our performance capacities are felt rather than...
Stevan Harnad, Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Brody, Les Carr, Stevan Harnad, Stevan Harnad
Most of this book has been about the past and the present of Open Access (OA). Let’s now take a brief glimpse at its future, for it is already within reach and almost within sight: Once the optimal...
How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates (2008)
Research funder open-access mandates (such as NIH's) and university open-access mandates (such as Harvard's) are complementary. There is a simple way to integrate them to make them synergistic and...
The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update (2008)
Harnad, Stevan, Brody, Tim, Vallieres, Francois, Carr, Les, Hitchcock, Steve, Gingras, Yves, ...
The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users; hence, they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all...
Weaken the Harvard OA Mandate To Strengthen It (2008)
Harvard University has mandated Open Access. Some changes are recommended in the wording of the Harvard policy to increase its likelihood of success and to make it more suitable as a model for other...
The Timing of a Conscious Decision: From Ear to Mouth. Bernard St-Louis (2008)
Gyslain Giguère, Victor Frak, Stevan Harnad, Brain Potentials
report the moment at which they freely decided to initiate a pre-specified movement, based on the position of a red marker on a clock. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), Libet found that the...
In Cangelosi A Parisi D (Eds) (2002). Simulating the Evolution of Language. (2008)
London Springer Chapter, Angelo Cangelosi, Alberto Greco, Stevan Harnad
lso have direct implications for the study of the origins and evolution of language. The first issue is to establish exactly what a symbol is, by giving a clear and unambiguous definition of it....
Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally (2008)
On December 26 2007 a mandate to self-archive all NIH-funded research articles became US law. However, the benefits of Congress's wise decision to mandate deposit immediately upon acceptance for...
India, Open Access, the Law of Karma and the Golden Rule (2008)
India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India needs to adopt a national OA self-archiving mandate for all of its research institutions and funders. The...
The Postgutenberg Open Access Journal (2008)
Some think the most radical feature of PostGutenberg journals will be the fact that they are digital and online, but that would be a much more modest development if their contents were to continue to...
Brian Rotman argues that (one) “mind” and (one) “god” are only conceivable, literally, because of (alphabetic) literacy, which allowed us to designate each of these ghosts as an incorporeal,...
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Swan, Alma, Sale, Arthur, Bosc, Helene
No research institution can afford all the journals its researcers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles that are made “Open Access,” (OA) by...
Maximizing Research Progress Through Open Access Mandates and Metrics (2008)
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Gingras, Yves
The only thing still needed in order to achieve universal Green OA is universal adoption of Green OA self-archiving mandates by research institutions worldwide, complemented and reinforced by...
The University's Mandate To Mandate Open Access (2008)
Open Access (OA) will not come until universities, the research-providers, make it part of their mandate not only to publish their research findings, as now, but also to see to it that the few extra...
ABSTRACT: There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This paper...
Angelo Cangelosi, Angelo Cangelosi, Alberto Greco, Stevan Harnad
Entry-Level to Higher-Level Categories Neural network models of categorical perception (compression of within-category similarity and dilation of between-category differences) are applied to the...
Entry-Level to Higher-Level Categories (2007)
Centre For Neural, Alberto Greco, Stevan Harnad, Angelo Cangelosi, Angelo Cangelosi
Neural network models of categorical perception (compression of within-category similarity and dilation of between-category differences) are applied to the symbol-grounding problem (of how to connect...
No Need for Canadian PubMed Central: CIHR Should Mandate IR Deposit (2007)
What is needed for Canadian biomedical research output isn't yet another (this time Canadian) PubMed Central: What is needed is that all Canadian (and US and UK) biomedical research output (as well...
Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise (2007)
Scientometric predictors of research performance need to be validated by showing that they have a high correlation with the external criterion they are trying to predict. The UK Research Assessment...
Distributed cognition. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) (2006)
Harnad, Stevan, Dror, Itiel E.
Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than...
Distributed cognition: cognizing, autonomy and the Turing Test” Pragmatics & Cognition 14(2 (2006)
ABSTRACT: Some of the papers in this special issue distribute cognition between what is going on inside individual cognizers ’ heads and their outside worlds; others distribute cognition among...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
Putting the Berlin Principle into Practice: The Southampton "Keystroke" Policy (2005)
A powerpoint series describing the Southampton University Self-Archiving Policy as a model for the implementation of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access Provision.
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; the idea of open access (what it is, to what it applies, its reason and the ways to implement it); the Southampton...
Evaluation of Algorithm Performance on Identifying OA (2005)
Antelman, Kristin, Bakkalbasi, Nisa, Goodman, David, Hajjem, Chawki, Harnad, Stevan
This is a signal-detection analysis of the accuracy of a robot in detecting open access (OA) articles (by checking by hand how many of the articles the robot tagged OA were really OA, and vice...
In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access (2005)
Les bibliothèques devraient être considérées comme des outils de recherche qui évoluent avec la technologie. Internet a changé la façon de communiquer la science et par conséquent le rôle...
In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access (2005)
Les bibliothèques devraient être considérées comme des outils de recherche qui évoluent avec la technologie. Internet a changé la façon de communiquer la science et par conséquent le rôle...
In a paperless world a new role for academic libraries: Providing Open Access (2005)
Les bibliothèques devraient être considérées comme des outils de recherche qui évoluent avec la technologie. Internet a changé la façon de communiquer la science et par conséquent le rôle...
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; the idea of open access (what it is, to what it applies, its reason and the ways to implement it); the Southampton...
Evaluation of Algorithm Performance on Identifying OA (2005)
Antelman, Kristin, Bakkalbasi, Nisa, Goodman, David, Hajjem, Chawki, Harnad, Stevan
This is a signal-detection analysis of the accuracy of a robot in detecting open access (OA) articles (by checking by hand how many of the articles the robot tagged OA were really OA, and vice...
Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras
In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in...
Distributed processes, distributed cognizers, and collaborative cognition (2005)
ABSTRACT: Cognition is thinking; it feels like something to think, and only those who can feel can think. There are also things that thinkers can do. We know neither how thinkers can think nor how...
Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras
In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in...
Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras
In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in...
Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras
In 2001, Lawrence found that articles in computer science that were openly accessible (OA) on the Web were cited substantially more than those that were not. We have since replicated this effect in...
Chaire de recherche du Canada
The Research-Impact Cycle (2003)
(Although I don't for a minute believe that researchers are in the trade for careerist or material reasons, I will pretend as if this were the case in order to speak a cost/benefit language that...
Depuis l'origine du langage humain il y a 100 000 ans jusqu'a l'origine de l'écrit il y a 5000 ans la tradition orale fut la principale créatrice, conservatrice, et communicatrice de la...
Depuis l'origine du langage humain il y a 100 000 ans jusqu'a l'origine de l'écrit il y a 5000 ans la tradition orale fut la principale créatrice, conservatrice, et communicatrice de la...
Depuis l'origine du langage humain il y a 100 000 ans jusqu'a l'origine de l'écrit il y a 5000 ans la tradition orale fut la principale créatrice, conservatrice, et communicatrice de la...
The Research-Impact Cycle (2003)
(Although I don't for a minute believe that researchers are in the trade for careerist or material reasons, I will pretend as if this were the case in order to speak a cost/benefit language that...
Dimensional attention effects in humans and neural nets (2002)
Adriaan Tijsseling, Rachel Pevtzow, Stevan Harnad
This paper provides experimental and computational support for the hypothesis that categorization is accomplished by modifying the similarity space underlying perception by investigating the change...
Steve Hitchcock Arouna, Steve Hitchcock, Arouna Woukeu, Tim Brody, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, ...
Citebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of scholarly research papers which are openly accessible on the Web, i.e. papers that are assessable...
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) (2002)
Xiaoming Liu, Tim Brody, Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, ...
This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...
How and Why To Free All Refereed Research. From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now (2001)
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Brody, Tim
Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research...
Peer Review in the On-line Era (2001)
All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be...
"All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be...
How and Why To Free All Refereed Research. From Access- and Impact-Barriers Online, Now (2001)
Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Brody, Tim
Researchers publish their findings in order to make an impact on research, not in order to sell their words. Access-tolls are barriers to research impact. Authors can now free their refereed research...
Peer Review in the On-line Era (2001)
All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be...
Angelo Cangelosi, Angelo Cangelosi, Stevan Harnad
Note: accepted for publication in Evolution of Communication, special issue on Grounding
Steve Hitchcock, Les Carr, Zhuoan Jiao, Donna Bergmark, Wendy Hall, Carl Lagoze, ...
The rapid growth of scholarly information resources available in electronic form and their organisation by digital libraries is proving fertile ground for the development of sophisticated new...
Alberto Greco, Stevan Harnad, Angelo Cangelosi, Angelo Cangelosi
Neural network models of categorical perception (compression of within-category similarity and dilation of between-category differences) are applied to the symbol-grounding problem (of how to connect...
Angelo Cangelosi, Stevan Harnad
Using neural nets to simulate learning and the genetic algorithm to simulate evolution in a toy world of mushrooms and mushroom-foragers, we place two ways of acquiring categories into direct...
Stevan Harnad, Angelo Cangelosi, Angelo Cangelosi
Using neural nets to simulate learning and the genetic algorithm to simulate evolution in a toy world of mushrooms and mushroom-foragers, we place two ways of acquiring categories into direct...
Categorical perception effects induced by category learning (1998)
Kenneth R. Livingston, Janet K. Andrews, Stevan Harnad
The authors report a series of studies designed to determine whether effects similar to those observed in the innate categorical perception of color and phonemes are induced during the learning of...
Warping similarity space in category learning by backprop nets (1997)
Adriaan Tijsseling, Stevan Harnad
We report simulations with backpropagation networks trained to discriminate and then categorize a set of stimuli. The findings suggest a possible mechanism for categorical perception based on...
Warping similarity space in category learning by backprop nets (1997)
Adriaan Tijsseling, Stevan Harnad
We report simulations with backpropagation networks trained to discriminate and then categorize a set of stimuli. The findings suggest a possible mechanism for categorical perception based on...
KEYWORDS: categorization, neural networks, hybridism, symbolism, categorical perception. (1994)
Summary An Extensive, Adriaan Tijsseling, Stevan Harnad, Good Morning
concepts like .freedom. or .gravity. are not present concretely in the real world, they are imaginary entities existing only in our minds. But because we are able to reason using abstract concepts,...
The Turing Test is not a Trick: Turing Indistinguishability is a Scientific Criterion (1992)
actually has a mind, actually thinks, actually has intelligence or knowledge -- these all come to the same thing): It is arbitrary to ask for more from a machine than I ask from a person, just...
Minds, Machines and Searle (1989)
Searle's celebrated Chinese Room Argument has shaken the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Many refutations have been attempted, but none seem convincing. This paper is an attempt to sort...