2 Responses to “Put Your Findings Online – No Publication for You!”
Stewart
March 18, 2008 at 9:38 am
If you accept that they could (and likely would) still operate on the notion of prestige and exclusivity, then it seems reasonable that open-access journals would still require that papers not be published elsewhere prior to being featured.
On the other hand, re-publishing one’s own work elsewhere, after some agreed-upon period of exclusive rights, sounds reasonable as well. So there’s room for compromise here, but I suspect that simultaneously publishing to a multiple destinations–whether they’re journals, Wikipedia, or even one’s own blog) will always be a frowned upon.
Just to throw in an ad hominem, APS has always been finicky about each of their Physical Review journals.
All of their journals are available online as well, so the publishees won’t be able to argue access, either. The difference with Physics journals and Philosophy journals is that almost no step in the process is free. I doubt that they are going to get very far with this.
No open access journal would complain about freely distributing what they publish–as long as there is a citation. Andy’s going to turn into a linux user soon. ^^
If you accept that they could (and likely would) still operate on the notion of prestige and exclusivity, then it seems reasonable that open-access journals would still require that papers not be published elsewhere prior to being featured.
On the other hand, re-publishing one’s own work elsewhere, after some agreed-upon period of exclusive rights, sounds reasonable as well. So there’s room for compromise here, but I suspect that simultaneously publishing to a multiple destinations–whether they’re journals, Wikipedia, or even one’s own blog) will always be a frowned upon.
Just to throw in an ad hominem, APS has always been finicky about each of their Physical Review journals.
All of their journals are available online as well, so the publishees won’t be able to argue access, either. The difference with Physics journals and Philosophy journals is that almost no step in the process is free. I doubt that they are going to get very far with this.
No open access journal would complain about freely distributing what they publish–as long as there is a citation. Andy’s going to turn into a linux user soon. ^^