Re: Is science on sale this week?

The key is "outside Springer Link". The ISWC 2012 (research) proceedings
are freely available:

http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/research-papers

Cheers,

Pavel


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro <
alexgarciac@gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel, I may not be understainding this but it seems that ISWC2012
> http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-35172-3 has a price
> tag of 51.16 Euros.
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > All,
> > for the record, the ISWC series publishes its proceedings freely
> accessible on the Web outside Springer Link.
> > I personally negotiated this right with Springer when I chaired ISWC
> 2006.
> > This was negotiated for the whole series, not just that year.
> > This was backed by SWSA, who promotes the conference series, as they all
> agreed it would not make sense for a conference like ISWC not to have open,
> freely accessible proceedings online.
> > This has always been the case for the WWW conference series as well.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Daniel
> > ---
> > Daniel Schwabe                      Dept. de Informatica, PUC-Rio
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> > On May 14, 2013, at 06:12  - 14/05/13, phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk(Phillip Lord) wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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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