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"While not all of its moves or business models have been universally embraced, it is also a hugely relevant, dynamic force in global publishing and research."
by peterkelly 14y ago
"While not all of its moves or business models have been universally embraced, it is also a hugely relevant, dynamic force in global publishing and research."
That's great.
But I'm still not going to hand over copyrights to my work for zero compensation so they can be "published" behind a paywall that benefits only Elsevier.
- Someone 14y agoElsevier does have open access journals and does allow you to pay to have your article be open access in some/many of its journals: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-options http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-option.... Yes, it isn't as easy as the BSD or GPL licenses, and I bet there are some warts, but it definitely is not true that "publish with Elsevier" implies "lock behind paywall". Also, lots of 'old' content appears to be freely available: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-archives http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-archives
- peterkelly 14y agoElsevier does have open access journals and does allow you to pay to have your article be open access in some/many of its journals Ok that's good, I wasn't aware of that. I don't mind paying (reasonable) publication fees to cover their costs - my main priority is maintaining copyright over my work and having the ability to make it publicly available under a creative commons license or similar (and freely redistributable, not just available from my personal homepage).