Re: Is science on sale this week?

We, as content creators, are holding all the cards. This is worth bearing
in mind when one has to deal with demands of e.g. "specialist" book editors
- the publisher needs the content creator to survive, but the inverse is
not so true these days.


On 13 May 2013 17:46, Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@gmail.com> wrote:

> conferences are important on their own. for instance, right now the
> ISWC is an important conference regardless of the publisher of the
> proceedings. if I wanted to get the 2012 proceedings I may have to pay
> (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-35172-3). do
> publishers pay the ISWC organizers for the right to publish the
> proceedings? I mean, as things are now the ISWC brings people to
> springer, not the other way around.
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Leon Derczynski <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > Reliable dissemination.
> >
> > CEUR-WS, ACL Anthology et al. do a valuable, critical job.
> >
> >
> > On 13 May 2013 17:25, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> If we subscribe to science, free and open access to knowledge, what's
> the
> >> purpose of the arrangement between conferences and publishers?
> >>
> >> -Sarven
> >> http://csarven.ca/#i
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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Leon R A Derczynski
Research Associate, NLP Group

Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
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