Steve, I understand the frustration, but I ask that you understand the degree to which AoIR is a new organization, with few resources, and entirely operated on the basis of volunteer effort, and to understand that there are many people who presented papers but do not want them made available via AoIR. Making papers available even in the limited fashion we are able to make them available requires considerable effort, particularly on Jeremy's part. We are simply not able at this time to make the commitments of resources required to make papers available to non-members, nor do we wish to require presenters to make their papers available (preferring instead that they opt to do so at our suggestion), nor do we have the human or capital resources to create a CD-ROM of papers. Best, Sj At 9:31 AM +0000 10/31/02, Walker, Steve [IES] wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
Your about the availability of the Maastricht papers is rather disappointing to those of us who attended & presented at the conference, but (for whatever reason(s)) aren't AoIR members.
If I understand correctly I don't have access to the papers - something apparently confirmed by trying to visit the site. This approach is somewhat unusual. AoIR 3.0 is the first conference I have attended where I have not had access to the papers either at or after the event. If it is necessary to restrict access to papers to the members (though, I suspect a bigger service to members would be to maintain a site where access to their papers were open to all, but that's another discussion), can I suggest that they are also distributed on CD-ROM, at least to those conference attendees who are not AoIR members? It's a rather frustrating conclusion to what was an enjoyable event.
Steve
_________________________________________ Steve Walker Senior Lecturer Leeds Metropolitan University School of Information Management http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ies/im/people/swalker/
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