- From: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@cs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 08:22:42 +0000
- To: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
An important correction: Articles on the preprint server are post-review, and differ from the published version only w.r.t. formatting. Ian Horrocks Editor in Chief Journal of Web Semantics > On 8 Aug 2017, at 20:27, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote: > > On 2017-08-08 19:16, Ian Horrocks wrote: >> I would like to remind everyone that JWS provides free open access via its preprint server: >> >> http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ >> >> You can find there not only the latest articles but an archive of all articles published in the journal going back to Vol 1, No 1 (2003). >> >> Ian Horrocks >> Editor in Chief >> Journal of Web Semantics > > > I would like to remind everyone that JWS provides free [1] open access > via its preprint server [2]: > > http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ > > You can find there not only the latest articles but an archive [3] of > all articles published in the journal [4] going back to Vol 1, No 1 > (2003) [5]. > > > [1] Nothing is free and this is not a charity from Elsevier. Public > institutions/libraries that subscribe to Elsevier's service have already > paid for the "free" service. How much? Ask your head librarian about the > confidentiality clause. > > [2] These works precede peer-review and are not considered to be > "published". It is not "citable" when played by the rules. It is not the > canonical work. > > [3] This is equivalent to the institutional repositories or open > archives. See eprints.org, hal.inria.fr, sw.deri.ie, dpsace.mit.edu, > svn.aksw.org, dataverse.org, ... arxiv.org, and many others. Already > paid by taxes or funded privately. > > [4] If authors want to have a "preprint" (and more) published online, > your institution most likely has you covered - also paid by your taxes. > Moreover, your institution probably provides a Webspace for you. Talk to > your department or library about your needs. > > [5] This journal required and maintained lowest standards for "Web" and > "Semantics" via desktop/print-centric solutions - nothing to do with the > native Web stack, but everything to do with fitting into Elsevier's > workflows and business. The Web Semantics journal *company* failed to > cultivate knowledge representation within its own realm since 2003. > > -Sarven > http://csarven.ca/#i >
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