My library will not know this. So, they will ask me to submit a PDF (oh dear) of the final paper to our eprints archive. Extra work, as I said.
John Domingue <[email protected]> writes: > As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the > risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if they > are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA > published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a > pretty unattractive area to do research in. > > > for both ISWC and ESWC the PDFs are freely available e.g. see [1] > > John > > [1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/accepted-papers > > > On 2 Oct 2014, at 12:23, Phillip Lord > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> writes: > > On 2014-10-01 13:36, Mauro Dragoni wrote: > Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be > formatted according to the guidelines for LNCS authors. Papers must be > submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format. > > As I understand it, there is a disconnect between the submission format and > what ESWC wishes to achieve or encourage [1]. > > Can someone please elaborate on how forcing researchers to use PDF to share > their publicly funded knowledge instead of SW/LD technologies and tools better > fulfills [1], or perhaps even contributes towards the Semantic Web "vision"? > > I would like to better discover and use SW research knowledge. ESWC > encouraging and promoting PDF for knowledge sharing sets an unnecessary limit > on discovery and use. > > Will you consider encouraging the use of Semantic Web / Linked Data > technologies for Extended "Semantic Web" Conference paper submissions? > > > Additionally, submission is to a closed access publisher, requiring us > to sign our copyright away in return for, well, nothing. > > As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the > risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if they > are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA > published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a > pretty unattractive area to do research in. > > Can we dump both Springer and PDF please? > > Phil > > > _________________________________________ > Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University > Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK > phone: 0044 1908 653800, fax: 0044 1908 653169 > email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> web: > kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/<http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/> > > President, STI International > Amerlingstrasse 19/35, Austria - 1060 Vienna > phone: 0043 1 23 64 002 - 16, fax: 0043 1 23 64 002-99 > email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> web: > www.sti2.org<http://www.sti2.org/> > > > > > > > > > > -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). > The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct > Authority. -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: [email protected] School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU
