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Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:00 AM

Science publishers get stupid

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  • Thursday, January 25, 2007 05:06 PM

    They want to have it both ways

    The days of research empires are definitely coming to an end no matter how much they try to stop it from happening. The battlefield for the right to scientific information is currently fought on the internet. Universities used to pay lot of money to get subscriptions to scientific journals. With time, they only have relatively less expensive e-journals saving lot of cost and space. At the same time, researchers are not even allowed to post their own published work in their own web page. This is because the publishing house making it difficult to avoid law suites if one does something similar. At the same time, most of the research is done using public money. Go figure how the pages printed on the internet becomes copyrighted when the work is done using public money, researchers get no money for writing a good article and reviewers who take time to validate the claims are not paid a dime!

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