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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 981 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/attachments/20170519/70dcddd9/attachment.sig>