- From: Enrique Pérez Arnaud <enrique@cazalla.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:58:30 +0200
- To: Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@cs.ox.ac.uk>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <20170809105830.eamkur25dupksail@eperez-ws.emergya.com>
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:11:43AM +0200, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote: > First two paragraphs about the important issue and then my response about the > pre print offered by the journal that Ian talks about. > > Publishers are now taking on the pre prints very actively. I should say here > that pre prints owned by publishers are not in control of the community. If > this part of the infrastructure is also in control of service providers then > the only important asset that we researchers produce will be 100% controlled by > someone else. Yes, I know that some people will argue that papers are not the > only asset that we produce. Unfortunately papers are the only asset that > counts because everything in academia is paper centric. We are witnessing how > little by little service providers take control of everything we produce (all > sorts of research objects). all the assets and therefore all the generated > value and by doing so they gain an unnecessary influence in the market as a > whole. They also have under control the metrics derived from those assets. IMHO > lab information management systems, specialised gits, data repositories, etc > must remain under our control; simply because this is critical infrastructure. > > Once again, if moving scholarly communication forward is the real objective > then we need a part of the infrastructure fully under our control. pre prints > maintained by universities are somewhat "rigid" and dont allow the necessary > "hacking" that is needed in order to move away from the current system. IMHO > the Open Science Framework (OSF) offers a viable alternative. Perhaps not as > decentralised as some would like but away enough from being in control of some > few service providers. Also, open enough as to make experimentation easy. I see > this OSF option as a platform for hacking and that is why I have strongly > argued that we, the semantic we and ontology community, need a pre print > server. hope this resonates with some people. I think that in this sense, it may be worth considering that the semantic web community is not just another academic community. In the same way that computer scientists were in a unique position to take advantage of all the new possibilities that computer networks open as regards project management, and were at the origin of most new related standards, the semantic web community should be in a unique position as regards taking advantage of the web to produce new publishing standards. So its efforts in this direction might be seen, not just as aiming to solve a problem of its own, but as leading the way in solving a problem of a broader community. > > As for the pre print Ian talks about > > The pre print is at http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/issue/ > archive and > > "The Preprint Server provides readers with free electronic access to article > preprints of the Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the > World Wide Web at Elsevier." > > so, what is the difference between a pre print and the final print? do u have > to pay in order to have a paper archived at the pre print? does this pre print > only archives papers published in the journal? > > Also, having a DOI is not such a big deal; ZENODO, not a formal pre print > server, assigns DOIs to the things that u upload. So, if having a DOI is such a > big deal one could simply upload the paper to ZENODO, get the DOI and then have > it also anywhere else -yes, this is the decentralisation we currently have. > > Pre prints are much more flexible than what the journal that Ian talks about > offers, for instance: > > "PsyArXiv provides support for multiple versions of a file, within-browser > rendering of manuscripts, inclusion of supplementary files, data, and code, > appropriate metadata, and links to resulting journal articles including DOIs" > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > Alexander Garcia > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Garcia > http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html > http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac > -- Enrique Pérez Arnaud
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