Brinkkemper, Otto schrieb:
>Dear colleagues,
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>That would be a good option, IF the file sizes could be much less than the 20 MB for one single publication that I created! Any advise how to limit this without unreadable results?? Bas van Geel gave me a PDF created by the publisher (Elsevier) of a Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology article. This still is 3.2 MB (but admittedly better than my own attempt, the review article was longer too...).
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>Regards,
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>oTTo
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>Van: Ehud Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Verzonden: maandag 30 januari 2006 16:21
>Aan: 'The archaeobotany mailing list'; Brinkkemper, Otto
>Onderwerp: RE: cheaper online journal access?
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>Dear friends,
>Following Otto, Mark and Lisa, why don't we agree, as member of this not-too-big list, to freely send our publications to members? I assume (and I'm not a lawyer, as you know...) that sending one's own papers on a one-to-one basis should not break any law, am I correct?
>Ehud
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>Ehud Weiss,
>Archaeobotanical lab.
>Faculty of Life Science
>and The Institute of Archaeology
>The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 ISRAEL Tel (W): ++972-3-5318245; Fax (W): ++972-3-5351824 Tel (H): ++972-3-9730318; Cell.: ++972-54-8070669
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>On Behalf Of Brinkkemper, Otto
>Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:01 PM
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>Subject: Re: cheaper online journal access?
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>Dear colleagues,
>
>Mark makes an important proposal to put our publications online ourselves in PDF format. It would indeed be great if we could generate a pool of PDF files! I have recently tried to create a PDF file myself by scanning a publication of which the publisher was not prepared to distribute PDF's of the chapters to the authors: The prehistory of the Netherlands (2005). For a c. 20 page chapter, the file became quite large (20 MB, scanned and saved at 300 DPI, a good printing quality, and acrobat distiller is needed). Does anyone have experiences in creating PDF files his/herself?? Would a much smaller file also be adequate??
>And: IF we decide to create a pool for PDF files of archaeobotanical publications, how easy would it be to find a site willing to host this (assuming Internet access is indispensible). And how can we secure that only suppliers of PDF-files have access (or should the trouble of generating PDF-files be compensated by more citations??).
>And: if journals provide PDF-files to authors, it might not be allowed to freely distribute these. How to handle this??
>In conclusion: the perspective is great in my opinion, but there are some mountains to remove first... I would be curious to read if there are other ideas on this subject!
>
>oTTo
>
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: The archaeobotany mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Namens Mark Nesbitt
>Verzonden: maandag 30 januari 2006 14:41
>Aan: Brinkkemper, Otto
>Onderwerp: Re: cheaper online journal access?
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>Hi Lisa
>
>Online journals have been a boon for those with an Athens login (i.e. a UK university affiliation), but are no use to independent researchers.
>However, there are some ways round this:
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>1. Do just sufficient teaching or research at a local university so as to acquire honorary staff status (and that all important Athens login).
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>2. Order journal articles through your local library - should cost £1-£3.
>The BL charges much more for direct sales because it is passing on a copyright fee to the publisher. It doesn't have to charge this for supply of photocopies to libraries.
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>3. Use Google Scholar - quite good at finding freely accessible PDFs
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>4. Use Google's ordinary Advanced Search, searching on article title and file type=PDF If there's a freely available copy, it should come up.
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>5. email the author of the paper and ask for a PDF, after visiting their website to see if they automatically put everything online, e.g.:
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>http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/%7Etcrndfu/downloads.htm
>http://palaeoworks.anu.edu.au/publ2005.html
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>As most archaeobotanical literature won't get online through publishers (being published in low circulation journals and monographs), we should perhaps be putting our work online ourselves. This is becoming standard practice in the sciences, e.g. for plant evolution:
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>http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/ResearchLabs/BarrettLab/schb_pub.html
>http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/WendelJ/publications.htm
>http://www.agronomy.ucdavis.edu/mcluo/publication_list.htm
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>Obviously work that is easier to access will be more cited.
>
>Mark
>
>
>On 30 Jan 2006, at 11:52, Lisa Gray wrote:
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>>Dear all,
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>>Can any of you recommend the cheapset way I can view journal articles
>>online?
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>>I've just used British Library direct and it would cost me over £20 to
>>read the article I need and my alumni membership of UCL library
>>doesn't permit me to have remote access (and I won't get started on
>>the cost in money and time in rail travel to view the article
>>itself!).
>>
>>all the best,
>>
>>Lisa
>>
>>
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Dear Otto and colleagues,
it's a question of resolution! With the Acrobat standard program the
size of PDFs could be further diminished,
best wishes,
Felix
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