University of Montreal should provide a link to Sci-Hub on their main library search page. Their students would appreciate it.
Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
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Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the funding. So this is already happening. However, it will need to be done by a greater proportion of the world to be effective. The only problem is that the method of open access publishing is usually to pay a few grand to the publisher for the privilege.
That can be a lot of money. E.g. elsevier charges $5000 / article : http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes And that is money that should be going to research.
I completely agree. I've said it before, pay-for open access (aka. "gold open access") needs to go die in a fire.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#43Elsevier...you are next.
Oh yes, I really wished it were true.
We're working in a small satellite institute, and we don't have direct access to an university-level subscription.
There are some (single) journals we subscribe to, but for most of the articles we have no other option than to pay per-article. Doing background research this way is incredibly frustrating, incredibly time-consuming and you have to decide whether a paper is worth investing to just by looking at the abstract. Doing a literature review is hell.
So what we do, like everybody does, is to ask the authors privately, and copy articles whenever we can. Or ask colleagues that have access through an university subscription.
I actually don't mind for the "pay for open-access" model. On all the articles we published, we always picked this option if available. In the scheme of things, the cost of publishing is minor. In several fields (genetics), it's not even a blip on the running costs of a lab. I don't mind paying for journals that actually do a reasonable selection and review on the articles. Some journals are worth the cost of publishing.
Unfortunately, this is not as widespread as it should. Keep copying guys... nothing new here.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#44I wish universities would take the lead in forcing open the journal monopoly. It would be really great if a major university like Stanford or Harvard said to its professors: You may publish anywhere, but you must also publish it for free to the academic community. Until a major university or five takes a stand on this, the rest of us must continue to fight.
Harvard and the University of California already have done this. I am not sure how widespread it is. "In 2008, Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to give the University a nonexclusive, irrevocable right to distribute their scholarly articles for any non-commercial purpose. In the years since, the remaining eight Harvard schools voted similar open-access (OA) policies; as of late 2015, three resear…
The quotes you provide establish that Harvard and the UC schools have the right to publish their professors' work for free, but not that they do it.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#45While price gouging by monopolistic publishers is certainly unpleasant, the very same universities complaining about the issue raise tuition and fees disproportionately. Save a few public universities, the Canadian and American universities operate just like the publishers they complain about.
UdeM is pretty great actually: https://admission.umontreal.ca/en/student-info/costs-financi...
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When publishing in a journal, I think you transfer your copyright to them That is correct. I have done this for every publication I've ever put out (O(10)). There may be exceptions but this is certainly the dominant paradigm in the physical sciences. My two cents: this is bigger than any University. It will require a government funding agency (likely, NIH or NSF) to take a stand vis a vi the public availability of…
Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the funding. So this is already happening. However, it will need to be done by a greater proportion of the world to be effective. The only problem is that the method of open access publishing is usually to pay a few grand to the publisher for the privilege.
Are you sure? I think it's only funders like Wellcome that require open access. My UK collaborators (in physical sciences) don't publish in open access journals.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When publishing in a journal, I think you transfer your copyright to them That is correct. I have done this for every publication I've ever put out (O(10)). There may be exceptions but this is certainly the dominant paradigm in the physical sciences. My two cents: this is bigger than any University. It will require a government funding agency (likely, NIH or NSF) to take a stand vis a vi the public availability of…
Agree completely. The government needs to act. As a professor in molecular biology I would be happy with the banning of publishing in for-profit journals.
It's not the for profit part that's the problem. It's the closed access part that is. Afaik, AAAS and ACS run science and all the chemistry journals respectively and they're both nonprofits with frustrating paywalls.
conversely if a for profit could effectively monetize a 100% open access journal, it would be totally fine.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since a few years ago, any EU or UK public funded research (which is most university research) must be published as open-access. It is a requirement of the funding. So this is already happening. However, it will need to be done by a greater proportion of the world to be effective. The only problem is that the method of open access publishing is usually to pay a few grand to the publisher for the privilege.
That can be a lot of money. E.g. elsevier charges $5000 / article : http://www.cell.com/rights-sharing-embargoes And that is money that should be going to research.
The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access repository.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Harvard and the University of California already have done this. I am not sure how widespread it is. "In 2008, Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously to give the University a nonexclusive, irrevocable right to distribute their scholarly articles for any non-commercial purpose. In the years since, the remaining eight Harvard schools voted similar open-access (OA) policies; as of late 2015, three resear…
The quotes you provide establish that Harvard and the UC schools have the right to publish their professors' work for free, but not that they do it.
Open access repos are available for a number of schools. For Harvard, go to https://dash.harvard.edu/ . For Caltech, you can find all author's work here: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/ . Try googling " open access repository" to see if you can find it.
However, I couldn't get online access for the UC system, even though they have a policy and "plan". I suspect that things just take longer at public universities due to bureaucracy.
Moreover, none of the university repositories I've found do anything close to a good job of making the articles searchable. For example, even though all of my papers are available through Caltech, google only provides links to arXiv or the actual journal. This is actually the problem: if you can't google it, it may as well not be on the open internet at all.
Re: Cancellation of subscriptions to Springer journals
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You may publish anywhere, but you must also publish it for free to the academic community. Is this possible? When publishing in a journal, I think you transfer your copyright to them; thereby preventing you from publishing the article any other way. Although as far as I know many journals allow a "pre-print version" to be published by the authors on their personal website.
> When publishing in a journal, I think you transfer your copyright to them That is correct. I have done this for every publication I've ever put out (O(10)). There may be exceptions but this is certainly the dominant paradigm in the physical sciences. My two cents: this is bigger than any University. It will require a government funding agency (likely, NIH or NSF) to take a stand vis a vi the public availability of…
The standard acceptable practice, at least in social sciences, is to publish the working paper. It'll be subtly different since it's pre peer-review and if you're an academic publishing your own paper you'll be expected to cite the full journal verson. But for the average person that wants to read the paper but doesn't have access to the journal, the working paper is more than adequate.