UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

Re:UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for ope... by no_reply_uc on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:26PM (#19275380)

this exists.

look up "Green OA" (https://openscience.com/green-oa-vs-gold-oa-which-one-to-cho...) or "Institutional Repositories".

the reasons these sites haven't taken over academic publishing are many and varied:

  - they are woefully underfunded (library services are low-status, gendered work, that never receive the funding they deserve).
  - publishing in established journals is singularly the most important thing in academic careers.
  - scholarly societies (IEEE is referenced elsewhere in this thread), publishers, and other entrenched interests have significant influence on policy.
  - etc...

in short, this isn't a technical problem. if it were, it would have been solved over a decade ago.

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Re:UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for ope... by alphagrep12345 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @06:47PM (#19276611)

Why can't you upload a copy in Institutional Repository and publish it in a journal? Do journals set any rules?

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Re:UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for ope... by Majromax on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:18PM (#19277664)

> Why can't you upload a copy in Institutional Repository and publish it in a journal? Do journals set any rules?

Generally, when a researcher publishes a work in a journal, they either assign copyright to the journal or give the journal an exclusive publishing license.

Ordinarily, that prevents researchers from making their papers publicly available elsewhere, and "Green" and "Gold" open access policies are the exception.

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