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The correct thing to do would have been to publish the article as open access. That means nobody has to pay to read it. It costs a small extra fee from the auth

by Blahah 13y ago

The correct thing to do would have been to publish the article as open access. That means nobody has to pay to read it. It costs a small extra fee from the authors to the journal to make it open access forever.

morpher 13y ago
I don't know about other fields, but in physics, the "small extra fee" is $1700 - $2700.[1] Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research. Fortunately, most physics journals also allow the author to retain publishing rights (just not on the final typeset version). So, sites like arxiv.org provide a better alternative. Free-to-reasearcher publishing in a prestigious journal plus free-to-researcher-and-public publishing elsewhere. [1] http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  >Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research. Compared to the cost to license journal access from Elsevier and the other parasites 3k per published item is cheap. The problem being that it comes from your grant funds instead of the Uni's general fund, or the Dep't funds.
- rflrob 13y ago
  When you compare that small extra fee to the "color figure fee" (for Science, I think it's ~$700 for the first +$200 per figure thereafter), the difference starts to become negligible compared to just publishing in an OA journal.
jedbrown 13y ago
Almost all publishers allow authors to distribute their own versions (not using journal typesetting) and government contractors (in the agencies I'm familiar with) are required to include the following clause on submissions. """ The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government. """ After a paper is accepted, the journals sends a copyright assignment form. The legal office at the lab will then neuter the assignment by crossing out sections and inserting permissions before signing it. The journals are not in a position to object. Universities should emulate this practice.

by Blahah 13y ago

morpher 13y ago

I don't know about other fields, but in physics, the "small extra fee" is $1700 - $2700.[1] Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research. Fortunately, most physics journals also allow the author to retain publishing rights (just not on the final typeset version). So, sites like arxiv.org provide a better alternative. Free-to-reasearcher publishing in a prestigious journal plus free-to-researcher-and-public publishing elsewhere. [1] http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release http://publish.aps.org/edannounce/CC-launch-press-release

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>Many researchers prefer to spend this money on actual research. Compared to the cost to license journal access from Elsevier and the other parasites 3k per published item is cheap. The problem being that it comes from your grant funds instead of the Uni's general fund, or the Dep't funds.
rflrob 13y ago
When you compare that small extra fee to the "color figure fee" (for Science, I think it's ~$700 for the first +$200 per figure thereafter), the difference starts to become negligible compared to just publishing in an OA journal.

jedbrown 13y ago

Almost all publishers allow authors to distribute their own versions (not using journal typesetting) and government contractors (in the agencies I'm familiar with) are required to include the following clause on submissions. """ The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government. """ After a paper is accepted, the journals sends a copyright assignment form. The legal office at the lab will then neuter the assignment by crossing out sections and inserting permissions before signing it. The journals are not in a position to object. Universities should emulate this practice.