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BMJ Article :Academic publishers urge Trump not to demand open access for federally funded research Dec 2019

Discussion in 'Other health news and research' started by Sly Saint, Dec 21, 2019.

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  1. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This article was originally behind a paywall.

    https://twitter.com/user/status/1208151429623504896


    full text here:
    https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj...=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage
     
    Sly Saint, Dec 21, 2019
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  2. Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This is called crying wolf.

    Publishing costs nothing. I regularly publish stuff for nothing. Google picks the articles up within a week or so. Nobody needs journals now.
     
    Jonathan Edwards, Dec 21, 2019
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    ME/CFS Skeptic Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    What do you mean exactly?
     
    ME/CFS Skeptic, Dec 21, 2019
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  4. Jonathan Edwards

    Jonathan Edwards Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I ask my departmental IT person to upload a PDF to my page on the College site. It has a URL then and I can cite that in other papers and do, as do others. It is an official publication both in academic and legal terms.

    The IT person has a salary but the process takes about ten minutes so maybe that comes to £4. The sandwiches I eat at departmental meetings probably cost more.
     
    Jonathan Edwards, Dec 21, 2019
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  5. Trish

    Trish Moderator Staff Member

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    Does the site allow responses, including post publication peer review?
     
    Trish, Dec 21, 2019
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    Jonathan Edwards Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Not published responses - just to me. There is no peer review. The sort of stuff I put there does not really lend itself to the sort of peer review one would want for clinical trials etc. But that could be provided if the college wanted for little cost.
     
    Jonathan Edwards, Dec 21, 2019
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  7. Snow Leopard

    Snow Leopard Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    How will researchers get their promotions without their Cell/Nature/Science publications? ;)
     
    Snow Leopard, Dec 23, 2019
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