The Cost of Knowledge (http://thecostofknowledge.com/index.php) indicates, over 14,5K researchers globally reprehend the Elsevier's paywall for the publicly funded science. What is your take on it?
Also, as a researcher:
1. How easily could you do without access to Elsevier journals via ScienceDirect and print copies?
(i) It would be no problem at all.
(ii) It would be OK, but a minor inconvenience.
(iii) It would be OK most of the time, but occasionally very inconvenient.
(iv) It would be a significant inconvenience.
(v) It would have a strongly negative impact on my research.
2. For those who negotiate on our behalf to be in a strong bargaining position, they have to be able to risk our losing access to Elsevier products (other than those that are freely available) for a significant length of time. How willing would you be for them to take that risk?
(i) Very willing.
(ii) Willing.
(iii) Unwilling.
(iv) Very unwilling.
/after https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/; also see http://svpow.com/2014/07/21/mike-taylors-esof2014-talk-should-science-always-be-open/ /.
http://thecostofknowledge.com/index.php
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts
http://svpow.com/2014/07/21/mike-taylors-esof2014-talk-should-science-always-be-open/
Hi Marcin,
Of course, I am always for good Open Access journals. I read and use a lot of info from other people's research papers. Without them, it will be very inconvenient for me doing my research or even writing a paper, and especially hard to catch up most current knowledge of science in my field. I think, deny access to those journals especially pose negative impact on the new graduate students, who are in need of reading many papers for their research projects.
So, for your question: (1) It would be a significant inconvenience; (2) Unwilling (but, do we have a better method??)
Recently, an article published by The Economist about Open Access. It is kind of interest. I attach it for you to read. It hints that Nature may soon go Open Access for everyone free to read.....
Yuan-Yeu,
Thanks for opening this discussion. Also, many thanks for the attached link. AFAIK, Nature already has one OA title running (http://www.nature.com/srep/index.html); they now launch second one, with flagship title http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access/index.html. Interestingly, as its leader, they put a long-standing OPPONENT of OpanAccess (seean interesting Scholarly Kitchen's rant about it, too).
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