- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:58:34 -0400
- To: ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com>
- CC: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>, "leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk" <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 04/23/2013 09:38 PM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote: > Maybe someone should start an iJournals store with articles costing a > fixed amount and come up with a formula to pay each contributing journal > for content. The whole pay-to-publish model is obsolete and should be discarded wholesale, since documents can be published for free on the web. Correspondingly, science should not be based on a pay-to-read model. We need to break the parasitic feedback cycle in which researchers think they need to publish in conventional journals and publishers feed on this perceived need. I suggest that researchers take an "open science" pledge to only cite articles that are available on the web with free and open access. If it isn't on the web -- with free and open access -- it doesn't exist. David
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