Philosophy
J. Harnad's article, "Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing" raises the old issues concerning scientific articles being made available to all. The usual complaint, by the journals, is that they cannot cover costs and make money and that if they gave their materials away free they would have to make charges elsewhere. What? Exactly what are the costs that these journals experience? What does it cost to transfer a hard copy document to a ".pdf" file. What is the storage cost? The only cost I can see are a journal's hard copy printing expense and a lot of them have very limited readership and short copy runs are made...and a staff. Furthermore, the journals do charge libraries huge sums to access their materials either in hard copy or via the Internet. And, this applies not just to scientific journals. [Incidentally, scholarly journals are not the only sources for fees...so are popular science and academic journals.]
Abstract:
Approaches to scientific journal publishing that provide free access to all readers are challenging the standard subscription-based model. But in domains that have a well-functioning system of publicly accessible preprint repositories like arXiv, Open Access is already effectively available. In physics, such repositories have long coexisted constructively with refereed, subscription based journals. Trying to replace this by a system based on journals whose revenue is derived primarily from fees charged to authors is unlikely to provide a better guarantee of Open Access, and may be in conflict with the maintenance of high quality standards.
Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing
- “the Dark Side Of Open Access,”...free Access To Scholarly Publications
"Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)" by Gina Kolata April th, 2013 The New York Times The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading...
- Access Denied
All too often a common feature. Sorry, you do not have access to this article. You have requested the following article: Philosophy of Science December 2002, Vol. 69, No. 4: pp. 645-651 Critical Notice: Scientific Civilization and Its Discontents: Further...
- Acs Chemistry Journals...no Longer In Print
I am not so sure that this is a good idea. "Chemistry Journals Go Digital-Only" by Josh Fischman July 10th, 2009 The Chronicle of Higher Education The American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print...
- "philosophy Or Science Magazines/journals" Poll
Do you subscribe to any philosophy or science magazines/journals? Yes...1 (20%) No...0 (0%) I use libraries...0 (0%) I use the Internet...2 (40%) All [except "No"]...2 (40%) A little surprised. I thought more would choose "All [except "No"]" thinking...
- Arxiv Hits 500,000+ Articles
The arXiv website is a renown open access repository to 500,404 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics sponsored by Cornell University Library. It offers preprint material that is often denied to the layperson...
Philosophy
"Open Access" issue again
J. Harnad's article, "Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing" raises the old issues concerning scientific articles being made available to all. The usual complaint, by the journals, is that they cannot cover costs and make money and that if they gave their materials away free they would have to make charges elsewhere. What? Exactly what are the costs that these journals experience? What does it cost to transfer a hard copy document to a ".pdf" file. What is the storage cost? The only cost I can see are a journal's hard copy printing expense and a lot of them have very limited readership and short copy runs are made...and a staff. Furthermore, the journals do charge libraries huge sums to access their materials either in hard copy or via the Internet. And, this applies not just to scientific journals. [Incidentally, scholarly journals are not the only sources for fees...so are popular science and academic journals.]
Abstract:
Approaches to scientific journal publishing that provide free access to all readers are challenging the standard subscription-based model. But in domains that have a well-functioning system of publicly accessible preprint repositories like arXiv, Open Access is already effectively available. In physics, such repositories have long coexisted constructively with refereed, subscription based journals. Trying to replace this by a system based on journals whose revenue is derived primarily from fees charged to authors is unlikely to provide a better guarantee of Open Access, and may be in conflict with the maintenance of high quality standards.
Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing
- “the Dark Side Of Open Access,”...free Access To Scholarly Publications
"Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)" by Gina Kolata April th, 2013 The New York Times The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading...
- Access Denied
All too often a common feature. Sorry, you do not have access to this article. You have requested the following article: Philosophy of Science December 2002, Vol. 69, No. 4: pp. 645-651 Critical Notice: Scientific Civilization and Its Discontents: Further...
- Acs Chemistry Journals...no Longer In Print
I am not so sure that this is a good idea. "Chemistry Journals Go Digital-Only" by Josh Fischman July 10th, 2009 The Chronicle of Higher Education The American Chemical Society, which publishes several dozen academic journals, is moving to end print...
- "philosophy Or Science Magazines/journals" Poll
Do you subscribe to any philosophy or science magazines/journals? Yes...1 (20%) No...0 (0%) I use libraries...0 (0%) I use the Internet...2 (40%) All [except "No"]...2 (40%) A little surprised. I thought more would choose "All [except "No"]" thinking...
- Arxiv Hits 500,000+ Articles
The arXiv website is a renown open access repository to 500,404 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics sponsored by Cornell University Library. It offers preprint material that is often denied to the layperson...