Dear Jeremy, Dear all, I agree entirely with Steve. I also think making the papers available for people like me - who are at the very beginning of their research work, - would be very much useful. I'm not a full AoIR member yet (still need to find out what it's worth), I'm still looking for subjects, inspirations etc. Perhaps I could contribute next year in Toronto? Getting the access to this year's papers would let me find out more about the topics, quality, research methods, expectations of the audience etc. Let me know what you think - Greetings, Anna *************************************** Anna Buchta Research Assistant Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IT K.U.Leuven Tiensestraat 41 3000 Leuven Belgium Tel: 016/32.54.69 Fax: 016/32.54.38 E-mail: anna.buchta@law.kuleuven.ac.be http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l - - - - - - - - - - - - End of Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - -