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As someone who's published in journals that are on JSTOR, I hope that this will increase the access of all this knowledge to the greater public. There is someth
by micheljansen 15y ago
As someone who's published in journals that are on JSTOR, I hope that this will increase the access of all this knowledge to the greater public. There is something very wrong about the way Elsevier, ACM, IEEE and other publishers abuse their size and established power to hold these works hostage. Of course it costs money to organize and maintain databases, but the way they wrestle you out of the copyright of your own works to ask $25 per paper sickens me. I am legally not even allowed to put my own work on my own website.
- _delirium 15y ago> I am legally not even allowed to put my own work on my own website. That's unfortunately still sometimes true, but I'm finding it's increasingly common for there to be self-archival exceptions, where you can put a self-prepared PDF on your personal website. I believe all IEEE and ACM publications now allow this. I've adopted a policy of just putting all my publications online and waiting to see if anyone complains.
- micheljansen 15y agoYeah, as long as you are not obviously threatening their ability to make money off our backs, they will probably not come after us. I think the publishers rather not face the negative publicity they would get if they would actively persecute researchers who make their work available on their personal website.
- nwhitehead 15y agoMost journals now have an explicit policy that putting up your preprints online is OK. You can check the status of any particular journal or publisher here: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
- loup-vaillant 15y agoSounds good, but I would be very tempted to publish HTML versions as well. Would that be permitted?
- wnight 15y agoThank you, the ps/pdf wall most research is behind greatly limits its availability. Wait until they've published and do it anyways. If they sue/etc you the Streisand effect should hopefully help your notability (and thus career) more than not.