Re: [ox-en] Re: Next successful Free Product?
- From: "V. Sasi Kumar" <sasi.fsfs gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:07:28 +0530
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:32 -0700, Michael Bouwens wrote:
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Thanks, but is that then not exclusionary for the less well funded, or for authors less well connected to their institutional funding. I know that in my case, as a part-time instructor, I simply could not pay for getting published. But does that make my articles less valuable 'in se'?
Sorry for the delay in replying -- I have been short of time.
Certainly, it is always desirable to make it possible for anyone to
publish, but that is not the situation today. What I said was only that
the author having to pay is not a significant step backwards. Moreover,
at least some open access journals (PLoS journals, for instance) do give
concessions to those who do not have funds to pay. Even conventional
journals that ask for page charges do have provisions for publishing
without payment, but I am not sure how effective it is. I have not yet
published in one :-)
V. Sasi Kumar
"V. Sasi Kumar" <sasi.fsfs gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 19:49 -0700, Michael Bouwens wrote:
Isn't it also mainly motivated by the new role of
patents, which block sharing and slow down innovation
in academic research. But the abandomnent of the old
scientific publishing scheme now also has perverse
results: the authors are now asked to pay for
publishing!!
In the given circumstances, this is not really all that bad because
funding agencies have been anyway providing the money for subscribing to
journals. If Open Access Publishing becomes the norm, then it would be
possible to subscribe to less number of journals, thus saving on that
expenditure. In any case, many journals already charge authors for
publishing articles.
Best
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V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsfs gmail.com>
Free Software Foundation of India
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