Douglas
So we just send each other email attachments. It is quicker and draws
attention to each publication. If people think that enough other people
are less likely to cite their work the battle will be won.
The whole idea of money is to prevent excess consumption of a limited
resource.
Some of us don’t have research budgets to cover publishing open-access
(indeed, some of my funding explicitly doesn’t cover any publication fees
at all). Given that there is almost zero public funding in this field in
the US, most US geoengineering papers probably aren’t generated with public
Hi All
The turnover of Elsevier in 2017 was £2.478 billion. The profit was 36.8%.
Suppose that nobody cited papers which appeared behind a paywall . . . .
Stephen
On 05/08/2018 01:47, Alan Robock wrote:
Dear All,
Yes, I support open access for all research already paid for by public
Dear All,
Yes, I support open access for all research already paid for by public
funds. Many journals make papers free after a year or two, but many
still require a subscription. I know AMS and AGU are trying to decide
how to maintain their business model if open access is required. They
One of the most troubling effects of paywalls, particularly in a
controversial discipline like CE, is that journalists often end up relying
on garbled and incomplete press releases. This 'Chinese whispers" approach,
with at least two intermediaries between scientists and the public, does a
grave
How about a single-payer system? The Library of Congress subscribes to all of
the journals and makes them freely available online to all tax-paying citizens.
Your password is issued to you when your federal income taxes are filed! Just
like single-payer healthcare, this would enable the
I'd just add on behalf of openness that much of the research is already
being paid for by the taxpayer and that those in the public, especially
on issues that are of significant public concern and interest, argue
that they should have free access to the results and not have to pay
further.
Alan:
I agree with all you wrote - but I think it great also that we have
more papers all the time that are NOT behind a paywall. I am not taking this
personally - and am glad you responded below.
I have been a AAAS member for possibly 40 years and I get great value
from that
