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Like we choose to have our PDF's under pay walls. I don't even have printed copies of my paper, because the publisher does not want to make the expenditure. And
by RBerenguel 16y ago
Like we choose to have our PDF's under pay walls. I don't even have printed copies of my paper, because the publisher does not want to make the expenditure. And if I were to lose my password, I would have no access to my own paper for download (and I don't have access to the rest of papers in the same issue, of course).
- Raphael 16y agoCouldn't you have emailed it to yourself or copied it to a USB drive when you originally wrote it?
- RBerenguel 16y agoI hope you are joking. What I mean is that access to the journal pdf is blocked. I have of course the sources, several copies and pdf's hanging around, as does my co-author.
- nickpinkston 16y agoSo you're saying that you can't release due to some licensing / copyright issue, or that it's just something that takes extra time? I definitely understand the former - not that I like it, but the latter is inexcusable.
- crazee 16y agoit's the former. But it's lovely the way you assume the latter is even a possibility. (where by lovely, I mean fucking pathetic, passive-aggressive, and shitty of you.)
- RBerenguel 16y agoIt depends heavily on the journal. Most journals have a "final draft policy": What they print is only theirs to publish. But you can self-post whatever previous versions you have. In my case, I think there are one or two minor spelling mistakes in the versions I have posted in ArXiV and my homepage. It does not take extra time (at least not a lot) to self-post it or publish on ArXiV (just a little hassle with image conversion problems, YMMV)
- nickpinkston 16y agoWould you say that you're the exception in posting them for the public? If so, would it be worth while for someone to try to get at these non-final but still perfectly useful papers?
- RBerenguel 16y agoI really can't tell. As far as I know, all people in my department publish freely his documents: either in ArXiV or in the department page for submitted papers. Also, ArXiV has a huge numnber of articles in Mathematics, the growing trend is to submit it there. I guess that most mathematicians (or at least, young ones) at least provide some draft version of their published manuscripts online, freely available.
- nickpinkston 16y agoYea, ArXiV is a great resource, and I actually hadn't seen that it's grown this much. Your department is one of the good ones - I salute you! Here's to more doing the same.
- RBerenguel 16y agoI also hope everyone starts doing it. There is no point in making research unavailable to the public just for the sake of keeping the journal's "level". The future is open content, but most publishers are still blind to it