Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal

Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by sytelus on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:08PM (#17182084)

While we are on the topic, why are we supporting IEEE? They have so many valuable as well as historical papers behind their paywall. I'm IEEE member and want to find out what can I do about this.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by zwieback on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:49PM (#17182386)

IEEE to me is a different case. They do more than publish and IEEE, along with SPIE, although expensive still carries weight for me. I can assume the content is reasonably high quality and well reviewed.

In general, though, for-profit publishing will hopefully go away soon. As an engineer I need quality scientific publications without the distorted politics behind it. I could come up with any number of ways to improve on the current situation.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by akvadrako on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:11PM (#17182108)

Why are you an IEEE member? Can't you just be not.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by gowld on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:08PM (#17182530)

That doesn't solve the problem of getting open access to IEEE published papers.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by akvadrako on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:44AM (#17185603)

They have DOI numbers, don't they? So you can just use sci-hub.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by drpgq on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @06:11PM (#17183271)

I find it irritating as an IEEE member that you don't get access to everything with a membership.

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by mkohler on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:07PM (#17183544)

As far back as 2011, Matt Blaze was pushing for changes to the copyright policies of IEEE and ACM. http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs

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Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature... by dboreham on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:12PM (#17182119)

Hmm...hadn't thought about this but...same and same.

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