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Yesterday I had to deal with copyright to have a conference paper published by ACM. Open Access was charged 700/900$ based on my membership. The two others opti
by tasogare 7y ago
Yesterday I had to deal with copyright to have a conference paper published by ACM. Open Access was charged 700/900$ based on my membership. The two others options was transferring all the management rights (keep dreaming), or giving them a license that basically allow them to do whatever they want anyway. I took the last option but I was angry: this is basically blackmailing me against my carrer path to get my work for free and make money on it. And I had to do all the bullshit job of dealing with templating, which should be done by the publisher.
Hopefully my personal page is well indexed in Google Scholar when searching for my name, so anyone can get my articles for free.
- a3_nm 7y agoThe license option is worse than you say: it's an exclusive license, meaning that not only can they do whatever they want, but you can't even do whatever you want anymore (distributing the article, etc.).
- tasogare 7y agoOh ok. I was sure there was shenanigans like that but my speciality is not law. It’s lion’s share clauses all way down.
- qpiox 7y ago@tasogare If you are an ACM member, you can use the Authorizer service to enable free access to your papers. The service creates a special link that you can use on two web-sites - for example your institutional web-site and your personal web-site, so that visitors to your web-site, will be redirected to PDF download of your papers. This effectively allows open-access to your papers, as long as you have a web-site.
- tasogare 7y agoI’m not. And after that I don’t plan to be one. From what I understand they "grant" me the rights to publish my preprint paper on my website. Which I planned to do anyway. As a UE citizen living in Asia I would have done so anyway, good luck for them suing me over my own work in a foreign jurisdiction.