Let me introduce to you another point of view on the subject. And please,
do excuse me for my English. I imagine that with a little effort it could
be understood.
First, I am paid for the Argentinean government to do research in Argentina
(a Third World country where resources did not abound). But when I publish
with the great commercial publishers they request me to confer them my
copyrights. When my country buys a license to these same giants, they
charge it as they charge any other client. So my country can not afford the
full license. Conclusion: I have access to a very scant and limited set of
articles.
So, as a result of this perverse system, my country is financing the great
publishers (by means of my copyrights) while researchers around here, if it
weren’t by our colleagues solidarity, are left aside of intellectual
circulation.
Second, I do not know what happens in other parts of the world but here, in
Argentina, is illegal that the authors can confer their rights to any
publisher because, even if they could be scientist they are matched to the
category of “creators”, just as any other writer. And this is a law voted
at our congress in 1933. You, as an author, keep your right to do as you
want with your work. Maybe in UK or in USA is different but they are not
the whole world. That issue may vary.
In any case, what is the problem with sharing with your colleagues a paper?
It is not a journal issue, not even a whole book we are talking about here:
we are talking about a book’s chapter or a paper. We are talking also about
social networking among researchers, something that allow that some sort of
equity emerges from a very asymmetrical world. Something that Academia.edu
and this list allow us to reach.
Best
Dra Vivian Scheinsohn
INAPL-CONICET/ UBA
3 de Febrero 1370
(1426 ) Capital Federal
Buenos Aires
Argentina
TE/Fax 54 11 4784 3371
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