[ok-scotland] CFP: Special Issue of the International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems on the Ubiquitous Semantic Web

Thu May 22 17:39:34 UTC 2014

Thanks for your comment William.

I checked with the publisher and here is the answer that I got.

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We will reopen our investigation of open access for your journal. However,
I have taken a quick look at both these sites and it looks like almost
every benefit of allowing open access is covered by our Fair Use policy,
and we don¹t charge a fee. For instance, an author can post on his/her
employer¹s repository/web page, a personal webpage not associated with a
society or open research site such as SSRN or academia.edu
<http://academia.edu/>, can republish it in a book of which he is the
author/editor, can use it for classroom discussion. The only thing we ask
is that the author completes a 1-page Reuse request form so we can track
where our copyrighted material is going.  Elsevier asks for $3100 for
these things. Elsevier even charges a fee if the author wants to order a
full text pdf of the typeset version of the journal article. We provide
this service for free.

What benefit to the authors am I missing, that they would be willing to
pay $3100 for something that we offer for nothing? Please know I am not
trying to argue with you but simply acknowledge that I am missing some
important aspect of open access that you would like to see your journal
authors obtain. I appreciate any further information you can provide me.
thanks for your time.

]]

It seems to me that their Fair Use Policy is rather open already. Please
feel free to let me know if you think it is still not open enough.

Cheers,

Jeff

On 12/05/2014 17:46, "William Waites" <ww at styx.org> wrote:

>Is it appropriate to advertise a journal that appears to charge $37.50
>to download copies of articles and requires authors to transfer
>copyright on a Open Knowledge mailing list?
>
>It seems to me we would be better to support open access journals as
>OKF does and to ask proprietary publications not to solicit material
>here.
>
>-w
>
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