Deb (Gmail) wrote:
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> i would also recommend (at the cost of offending journal and book publishers)
> putting your own publications online - either on your own website or through
> this website (http://www.scribd.com/) i recently discovered (and downloaded a
> useful publication from).....
Here's the sad irony though: we don't typically own the rights to the work we publish. So more than a question of "offending" the publishers by making PDFs freely available, it seems likely to me that in their eyes we'd be breaking the law?
If my hunch is wrong, someone please correct me.
The long term solution to this problem is open access journals, and perhaps even more informal publishing of academic work (maybe self-publishing?). But then that gets us back to the problem of the reward structure of the academy.
Bruce
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