Comments on: Environment vs. personal choice? (re: attribution and ownership of ideas) http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/07/12/environment-vs-personal-choice-re-attribution-and-ownership-of-ideas/ Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:52:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cornelius http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/07/12/environment-vs-personal-choice-re-attribution-and-ownership-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1542 Cornelius Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:02:06 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=1523#comment-1542 I'd like to pitch in as well, since scholarly publishing (as you know) is a topic close to my heart. While it's a general convention that journal publishers prefer material that is original (= that has not been published elsewhere before) this is not per se a copyright issue, unless you're dealing with a commercial publisher who intends to take your copyright away and lock down your paper in a closed-access journal. I hope I don't come across as too much of an activist, but academics should think twice (at least!) before publishing under a model that restricts their ability to make a digital copy of their work freely available on the Intenet (in a blog, on their personal website etc). I think academia is in a sad state when many researchers (and I'm not talking about you here at all - more of a general qualm) give away their findings with no understanding of who in the end owns the content. Alternatives exist - journals like JCMC and Language@Internet (just a few coming to my mind) are peer-review and professional, but enable open access for all readers. In my mind (and I know I may be a tad radical) anything that you can't publish freely on the Net may just as well not be published at all, since only a small and highly specialized audience will ever get to see it if it's locked away behind Elsevier's electronic paywall. Ehh, end of rant. :-) I’d like to pitch in as well, since scholarly publishing (as you know) is a topic close to my heart. While it’s a general convention that journal publishers prefer material that is original (= that has not been published elsewhere before) this is not per se a copyright issue, unless you’re dealing with a commercial publisher who intends to take your copyright away and lock down your paper in a closed-access journal.

I hope I don’t come across as too much of an activist, but academics should think twice (at least!) before publishing under a model that restricts their ability to make a digital copy of their work freely available on the Intenet (in a blog, on their personal website etc). I think academia is in a sad state when many researchers (and I’m not talking about you here at all – more of a general qualm) give away their findings with no understanding of who in the end owns the content. Alternatives exist – journals like JCMC and Language@Internet (just a few coming to my mind) are peer-review and professional, but enable open access for all readers.

In my mind (and I know I may be a tad radical) anything that you can’t publish freely on the Net may just as well not be published at all, since only a small and highly specialized audience will ever get to see it if it’s locked away behind Elsevier’s electronic paywall.

Ehh, end of rant. :-)

]]> By: Aldo de Moor http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/07/12/environment-vs-personal-choice-re-attribution-and-ownership-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Aldo de Moor Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:26:27 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=1523#comment-1242 Right on! I have published core ideas of mine on my blog first, then wrote papers/articles around them later. I guess that, as long as the journal article is not a verbatim copy of the blog post, there should be no problem. Moreover, most journal articles are rewrites of conference papers anyway. Similarly, you would have to rework your dissertation chapters for publication in a journal. Finally, the chapters are published first as an official thesis as well (often with ISBN number, so much more formal than a blog post), so if journal publishers accept that (which they do), they should accept a (draft) version on a blog for sure! Right on! I have published core ideas of mine on my blog first, then wrote papers/articles around them later. I guess that, as long as the journal article is not a verbatim copy of the blog post, there should be no problem. Moreover, most journal articles are rewrites of conference papers anyway. Similarly, you would have to rework your dissertation chapters for publication in a journal. Finally, the chapters are published first as an official thesis as well (often with ISBN number, so much more formal than a blog post), so if journal publishers accept that (which they do), they should accept a (draft) version on a blog for sure!

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