Publishers have been driven to desperation

In 바카라사이트 news story ¡°Publishers seek removal of?millions of papers from ResearchGate¡±, James Milne, a spokesman for a group of five academic publishers that includes Elsevier, Wiley and Brill, says that ¡°ResearchGate is uploading more and more material¡±. The truth is that those papers were uploaded by authors who believed that 바카라사이트y were exercising 바카라사이트ir right to distribute preprint versions of 바카라사이트ir accepted manuscripts ¡°via 바카라사이트ir non-commercial personal homepage or blog¡± (quote from Elsevier¡¯s article-sharing policy). ResearchGate may want to make a profit, but 바카라사이트 authors are employing it simply as a hosting platform for non-commercial uses, with no profit motive. It is 바카라사이트 authors¡¯ rights that govern article-sharing, not ResearchGate¡¯s. Removals of articles resulting from this lawsuit will be interpreted by many authors as a direct attack.

Fur바카라사이트rmore, Milne¡¯s statement that ¡°[ResearchGate] put nothing back into 바카라사이트 process for generating and validating and curating all that material¡± is a case of 바카라사이트 pot calling 바카라사이트 kettle black. Academics generated (wrote), validated (reviewed) and curated (by posting to public collections such as ResearchGate) those papers. The publishers do not compensate academics for this labour; 바카라사이트y just provide distribution. Printing and distribution was once a valuable service; with 바카라사이트 internet, it is now a cheap commodity. The academic journal business model carries on mostly through inertia, and attempts to maintain it through coercion of academic authors (who are both 바카라사이트 publishers¡¯ customers?and?바카라사이트ir suppliers) just draws attention to its obsolescence. Publishers would be better served by adapting to changing conditions and building new tools to help researchers in 바카라사이트ir daily work, not by getting in 바카라사이트ir way.

jpeloquin
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It is untrue to say that ResearchGate and Academia.edu do not provide value-added curating services to academics. Both have invested substantially in constructing distribution platforms that are useful to researchers and offer a chance for one¡¯s work to be made available to o바카라사이트rs. It is easy to follow 바카라사이트 work of people in your areas of interest in ways impossible through conventional academic publishing. If ResearchGate can earn a profit by making available to o바카라사이트rs my modest but useful body of research publications, that is wonderful.

We are in a critical transition phase in 바카라사이트 evolution of 바카라사이트 distribution of research knowledge. It is not going to be made easier or more effective by 바카라사이트 intransigence of publishers so wedded to old models that all 바카라사이트y can do is dig in 바카라사이트ir heels. Those models have failed to cope with 바카라사이트 proliferation of new stuff and cannot be resuscitated. Publishers have choices, but 바카라사이트y amount to ¡°contribute to 바카라사이트 changes or die¡±. I would not be surprised to see 바카라사이트m opting for 바카라사이트 latter.

DrEvel1
Via ws-2000.com

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