Re: Is science on sale this week?

ISWC and ESWC are a particular problem because they are both Springer. I
pulled my paper from publication last year, as they would not do an open
access option.

So, with the situation as it stands, I cannot publish any semantic web
research in either of these two conferences.

Phil

Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@gmail.com> writes:

> 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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