This interesting discussion is taking place on several lists: here, on lis-profession and on Medlib-L, with different nuances.
To try to bring the strands together, #ukmedlibs will devote their October chat to the theme of what is variously described as guerrilla open access, scholarly piracy or biblioleaks.
It happens at 8 pm on 17th October. If any of the contributors on this list would be interested in co-hosting the chat, do get in touch
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You’ll be surprised that the industry was pioneered by that captain of altruism Robert Maxwell.
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Hi All
This is surely an opportunity to extol the full potential of
Open Access adoption.
In my humble opinion, Carl hits the nail on the head:
"academic publishing needs to reform and that publically funded research needs to be available as Open Access".
Is there an inherent pretentiousness here, amongst authors who wish to appear in eminent publications that help further their careers, as opposed to
Open Access titles? Surely, appearing in a freely accessible title will improve author impact through increased citations (and whatever other impact metrics out there!).
To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong), authors do not receive remuneration from the big publishers.
By making this information freely available (as it should be), would consequently make services such as unpaywall.org redundant, and share information
without barrier in support of wider human advancement!
Rant over!!!
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Sent: 22 August 2017 11:05
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This is interesting and the first I’d heard of it.
Those using the hashtag are well aware they are doing something they shouldn’t, thanking the donor is discouraged and users are recommended to delete their tweet once it’s been fulfilled. Secrecy is built in,
possibly because they fear something like this happening:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7568642.stm
And I wouldn’t be surprised if it did, the academic publishers and the legal departments and vested interest to do so. Although I absolutely agree that academic publishing needs to reform and that publically
funded research needs to be available as Open Access.
The most worrying aspect of this isn’t that students are doing this but that it is being used by academics and researchers who are possibly leaving themselves and their institutions open to legal action. Maybe
this is something we need to talk to our customers , showing them alternatives such as UnPaywall (http://unpaywall.org/) for instance.
Carl.
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Hi Sarah,
This is interesting and I’m sure really useful. My only concern is the copyright ramifications- for instance, if people are sharing full texts of something their institution gives them access to for instance?
Different if a librarian does it as they are able to send copyright forms etc- would Joe public do this?
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Hello,
I’m not sure how many of you are on Twitter but i’ve just found the following hashtag and i thought it might be something we as librarians want to discuss. It’s #ICanHazPDF
and basically people seem to be attaching it to tweets asking other people to give them a full text article they’re requesting. People have been using it on twitter for a little while now, and some people have been discussing it at a current conference @iflawlic.
I thought it might be interesting to bring it to a wider audience to see what everyone thinks about it. People on Twitter are saying that it’s better than asking a librarian for a full text article as this method is much faster. It’s an interesting concept
to use Twitter this way, what do you think?
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