On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/5/2011 4:59 PM, Zainab Bawa wrote: > > > I am only allowed to circulate this paper one on one, not put it up for > > public use immediately. Maybe few months down the line, I can put the > > pdf on my blog! > > Deja vu all over again [1]. This is stupidity (on the part of the > journal, I mean). > > Dear Udhay, I guess this is what happens with the journals, copyright and revenue models. The journal that I am currently working with for a special issue on Open Government Data is an online journal started by Michael Gurstein precisely to move away from this model of paying for downloading each article. The payment model severely restricts access and I am also not in favour of it. My current paper got published because of the work I was doing in with the India-South Africa research project. The project decided to get a special issue on the theme of "accessing the state” as one of the outcomes of our research. > I would be extremely interested in the paper as well, Z. Will send the paper over to you. > Also, let me > know (at an appropriate time) whether you'd be OK with putting it up at > the informal collection of silklister anthro/socio work [2]. > Yes, sure. I guess by the end of this month, I would do so! Zainab
