[Tccc] Research without Walls

Renato Lo Cigno locigno
Mon Oct 24 04:33:49 EDT 2011


I fully agee with Mani and Luigi: almost (to the best of my 
knowledge) no serius publisher today prevent authors to 
publish on their web pages a pre-print PDF or their works, 
provided proper credits and the link (DOI is fine) to the 
official source.

Thus the issue of open access and the pledge to "open 
science" s very often misleading if not a mischief, 
sometimes just the excuse to ask authors to pay for 
publishing their work (which really prevents poor 
scientists to publish!), or adding advertisements to their 
on-line sites.

The "traditional" approach has still a couple of advantages:
1) If people pay to read the works this is a long-term
    filter on quality far better than any peer review;
2) Serious scientific journals (not magazines, clearly!) are
    still free from advertisement: google and microsoft
    search engines are not!!!

My 2c
Renato Lo Cigno
http://disi.unitn.it/locigno

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Luigi Iannone wrote:

> 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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