We, as content creators, are holding all the cards. This is worth bearing in mind when one has to deal with demands of e.g. "specialist" book editors - the publisher needs the content creator to survive, but the inverse is not so true these days.
On 13 May 2013 17:46, Alexander Garcia Castro <[email protected]> wrote: > conferences are important on their own. for instance, right now the > ISWC is an important conference regardless of the publisher of the > proceedings. if I wanted to get the 2012 proceedings I may have to pay > (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-35172-3). do > publishers pay the ISWC organizers for the right to publish the > proceedings? I mean, as things are now the ISWC brings people to > springer, not the other way around. > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Leon Derczynski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Reliable dissemination. > > > > CEUR-WS, ACL Anthology et al. do a valuable, critical job. > > > > > > On 13 May 2013 17:25, Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> If we subscribe to science, free and open access to knowledge, what's > the > >> purpose of the arrangement between conferences and publishers? > >> > >> -Sarven > >> http://csarven.ca/#i > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Leon R A Derczynski > > Research Associate, NLP Group > > > > Department of Computer Science > > University of Sheffield > > Regent Court, 211 Portobello > > Sheffield S1 4DP, UK > > > > +45 5157 4948 > > http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/ > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Beyond the PDF" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > -- > Alexander Garcia > http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ > http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html > http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac > > -- Leon R A Derczynski Research Associate, NLP Group Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Sheffield S1 4DP, UK +45 5157 4948 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/
