[Tccc] Research without Walls

Luigi Iannone luigi
Mon Oct 24 04:12:00 EDT 2011


So, if I get the pledge straight the pledger are telling me (and the community):

 "Please review my papers but be aware that I will not review yours."

Sounds highly unfair to me.

Luigi Iannone
Senior Research Scientist
Telekom Innovation Laboratories / TU Berlin


On Oct 22, 2011, at 17:37 , Jakob Eriksson wrote:

> I just read about this interesting initiative on Slashdot, with the summary:
> 
> "Prominent Computer Science researchers from Google, Microsoft and UC Berkeley are starting to sign the 'Research Without Walls' pledge, promising to never be involved in peer review for a venue that does not make publications available to the public for free."
> 
> http://www.researchwithoutwalls.org/
> 
> I'm probably going to sign this pledge myself, but I thought it'd be interesting to have a discussion about it before I do so. What are people's thoughts on open access publishing?
> 
> Jakob Eriksson
> Assistant Professor 
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> 
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