[User-committee] [scientific] OpenStack research papers

Nicolas Bock nicolasbock at gmail.com
Fri May 19 15:16:58 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 02:38:40PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>On 2017-05-19 07:49:19 -0600 (-0600), Nicolas Bock wrote:
>[...]
>> Normally journals have pretty restrictive copyright rules. Some even
>> restrict the rights of the authors themselves and uploading PDFs is not an
>> option in this case.
>>
>> All we would need is a list of DOIs and not the papers themselves, although
>> unfortunately this is only really useful with open access papers since many
>> journals still protect their content behind paywalls.
>[...]
>
>As a community dedicated to openness, we should probably try to help
>reverse that trend by highlighting open access academic journal
>efforts whenever possible:
>
>    http://openjournal.foundation/
>    http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
>    https://oaspa.org/
>    https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/
>    http://www.theoj.org/
>    https://www.plos.org/
>    https://www.hindawi.com/
>    http://www.biomedcentral.com/
>    https://doaj.org/
>    http://oaji.net/
>
>I stopped at ten URLs, but in my opinion the growing trend toward
>openness within academia is quite compelling and something we would
>do well to support in whatever ways we can.

Yes, I agree completely. Thinking about the open/closed question 
more I think it doesn't make any sense to advertise closed 
articles. Unless you are affiliated with a library that pays for 
access you wouldn't be able to read those anyway (unless you can 
find them on sci-hub ;) ) 

Nick
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