Comments on: Some science journals are messed up http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/some-science-journals/ Biotech, Knowledge Creation Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ResourceShelf » Some science journals are messed up http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/some-science-journals/#comment-52 ResourceShelf » Some science journals are messed up Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:59:27 +0000 http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/?p=11794#comment-52 [...] Some science journals are messed up I’m providing a detailed examination of an online journey I took this morning that demonstrates how the Internet has altered the landscape for publishing of articles in scientific journals. Online access certainly changes how we search for and how we read articles. It is also changing where we chose to publish. [...] [...] Some science journals are messed up I’m providing a detailed examination of an online journey I took this morning that demonstrates how the Internet has altered the landscape for publishing of articles in scientific journals. Online access certainly changes how we search for and how we read articles. It is also changing where we chose to publish. [...]

]]> By: McDawg http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/some-science-journals/#comment-51 McDawg Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:14:00 +0000 http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/?p=11794#comment-51 Great post and follow up comment Richard. Self-archive? Absolutely. Peter Suber blogged about one of my efforts to convert an important TA article to OA. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/scientific-american-allows-postprint.html Great post and follow up comment Richard.

Self-archive? Absolutely.

Peter Suber blogged about one of my efforts to convert an important TA article to OA.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/scientific-american-allows-postprint.html

]]> By: Richard http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/some-science-journals/#comment-50 Richard Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:43:59 +0000 http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/?p=11794#comment-50 I agree. Not many non-scientists know but to get a paper published, the authors have had to sign away their copyrights to the journals. That means that it is often actually illegal for a scientist to make a copy of the paper that they were the creator of. If you did not sign off on the transfer, you did not get the paper published. This will not stand and I see more and more scientists who will maintain copyright, at least for the ability to self-archive. I agree. Not many non-scientists know but to get a paper published, the authors have had to sign away their copyrights to the journals. That means that it is often actually illegal for a scientist to make a copy of the paper that they were the creator of. If you did not sign off on the transfer, you did not get the paper published.

This will not stand and I see more and more scientists who will maintain copyright, at least for the ability to self-archive.

]]> By: Ad Lagendijk http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/some-science-journals/#comment-49 Ad Lagendijk Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:57:15 +0000 http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/?p=11794#comment-49 I absolutely agree. I think $5 is even a lot. And the hassle of credit card and all that. I think it is a duty of every scientist to have at his (or group's) web site all his (their) papers available as free pdf's. If the journals complain just call their bluff. I absolutely agree. I think $5 is even a lot. And the hassle of credit card and all that. I think it is a duty of every scientist to have at his (or group’s) web site all his (their) papers available as free pdf’s. If the journals complain just call their bluff.

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