Re: ICWE 2022 - Deadline Extension - abstracts due 4 February, full papers 11 February

On 2022-01-22 23:03, Francesco.Osborne wrote:
>Papers must be formatted according to the information for Springer LNCS authors at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted in PDF format.

Archaic.

>Please note that we strongly discourage authors to upload their ICWE submissions to arXiv while still being under review since doing so may hamper anonymity.

"strongly discouraged" is not a normative statement. Publishing at arXiv 
does not entail "publishing" as far as "publishers" go - it needs a 
DOI/ISBN etc. Publishers want to make sure that their version of the 
publication predates everything else out there. It eliminates or makes 
it difficult (or reason) to put a copy of the scientific contribution 
out there after their "publication".

This has nothing to do with "anonymity" and shifting the responsibility 
to the authors is irresponsible on the part of the organising committee. 
They're just passing on publisher expectations / talking points.

Is dropping a free and open access version at arXiv (or elsewhere) going 
to fully prevent reviewers from figuring out the authors of a paper if 
they wanted to? No.

>In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form, through which the copyright for their paper is transferred to Springer.

This advertisement went into great detail about the third-arty 
publishers requirements to "publish" but conveniently leaves out the 
costs to participate or to publish. The organising committee should 
include the actual costs in the advertisement and link to the 
third-party publisher's website for those that wish to pursue open 
access publishing via third-party publishers as an alternative to 
signing away the rights to research findings that's typically funded by 
taxpayers.

This particular archaic publisher appears to charge (at minimum 
depending on actual classification) 30 EUR / page of PDF. That's 
approximately 15 * 30 = 450 EUR (plus relevant taxes) for a full paper.

Once again, that's ~450 EUR to put a PDF on a website as "open access" 
so that anyone can read for free.

Web engineering people, how much would you give from your own pocket to 
put a PDF on a website?


 >WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary

 >The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and 
hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.

 >The project started with the philosophy that much academic information 
should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information 
sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of 
information by support groups.

WorldWideWeb: Summary, alt.hypertext, Tim Berners-Lee, 1991

https://web.archive.org/web/20180826220707/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJGhZyooXzkJ

-Sarven
https://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Wednesday, 2 February 2022 11:36:08 UTC