http://duncan.hull.name A personal laboratory notebook Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:39:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-7019 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:39:13 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-7019 Thanks for your answer Seb. No offence taken, just glad that we could clear up the confusion. I see your point about the closed access instance: that can be misleading. Nevertheless, a quick Google search will instantly unearth the freely available post-print, so I do not think that our paper belongs on this list.

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-7014 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:36:20 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-7014 In a way I stand corrected, Peter, and I apologise if this has caused offence. An issue is that from the point of view of an “ordinary seeker after knowledge” the availability of the post-print is not all that obvious, especially as it is typically the closed access published instance of a paper that gets shared around (as in this case – a retweet by Figshare of one of the authors of the paper’s tweet that pointed to the IJTEL instance of the paper not the open instance).

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-7012 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:11:04 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-7012 I just wanted to point out that our paper is and was always open access – even before it was published in IJTEL. Here is a link to the postprint: http://know-center.tugraz.at/download_extern/papers/open_science.pdf You can check it yourself: Google indexed it on Nov 13. We would not have published with them, if they had not provided the green road to open access.

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-7007 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:38:44 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-7007 [...] “… But there is still a long way to go yet, as much of the world’s scientific knowledge remains locked up behind publisher’s paywalls, unavailable for re-use by text-mining software and inaccessible to the public, who often funded the research through taxation. Ironically, some of the papers that are inaccessible discuss or even champion the very Open Access movement itself …” (more) [...]

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-7006 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:46:31 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-7006 Good to read this, and had been wondering whether there is a place to record irony of this kind. Here is another example: http://www.webcitation.org/65XYPOsnQ (also webcitation is a convenient way to take snapshots).

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-6993 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:42:21 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-6993 Great post! Thank you. Here’s another, the authors say “utgers University Libraries is actively expanding its repository to include materials with scholarly merit that are currently siloed in academic departments or otherwise unpreserved and unavailable to the public. ” The article describing the collaboration is behind a paywall, however: http://pulse.me/s/5YAEk

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-6957 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:49:35 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-6957 Hi Stephen, I might be missing something, but what does GigaOm have to do with publishing scientific papers?

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-6938 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:12:28 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-6938 How about GigaOm, who shouts stomps and screams against paywalls and yet makes ALL their monet on GigaOmPRO. It’s actually genius, getting others to bankrupt themselves, while you make money.

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2012/02/15/open-irony/#comment-6937 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=3458#comment-6937 [...] kur­zer Hin­weis auf einen neuen Preis, auf den die Wis­sen­schafts­welt gewar­tet hat: den Open Access Irony Award. Er wurde von Dun­can Hull ins Leben geru­fen und geht an Fach­zeit­schrif­ten, die Stu­dien [...]

]]> http://duncan.hull.name/2008/03/05/science-20/#comment-6929 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:58 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=18#comment-6929 [...] 3. Science 2.0 « O’Really? [...]

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