Pall; Some universities have finally begun to rebel against the high cost of journals. The University of California just did: http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/ I think the University of Oregon has followed, although I can't read the story because the Chronicle of Higher Education wants me to pay to read it. Irony!
I agree with you about publishing in journals that don't pay authors and then charge high prices to subscribers. Imagine if book publishers did this?! I also agree that this is the fault of the universities, and that with the web they can build their own system. -Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pall Thayer" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] should we not react about what happened AaronSwartz? This problem lies much deeper within the academic institution. It has to do with Universities and research institutions/funders requiring that researchers publish under peer review. The publications supply that peer review and then sell their journals for vast amounts of money. JSTOR doesn't publish or peer review. All they do is provide a searchable archive of what the journals have published and, if I remember correctly, they aren't allowed to include content until it's a couple of years old. The way to battle this and truly make information free is to try to get the institutions to change. To provide the peer review themselves and publish material freely on the web. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Catherine Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > It is just this institutional affiliation that's the problem. It > effectively undermines independent scholarship. I've never lived > anywhere that had a public library subscription. > > I guess the solution is to visit San Francisco and get a card there.... > > Catherine Daly > >> Any attempt at painting JSTOR as a "bad guy" is pretty absurd. They're >> a non-profit organization that provides an invaluable service that >> most individual users don't pay for. They get free access through >> institutional affiliation. For those who don't have that sort of >> affiliation, many public libraries also make JSTOR available to card >> holders. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
