[GOAL] BLOG: Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows

[Florence Piron]

You could tell these researchers :

- That ambition and competition are not the only values in life

- That being terrified of displeasing abusive commercial journals is 
very dangerous for their (mental) health - they could look at what 
happens elsewhere in the world they share with other human beings - it 
would surely appease their terror

- to have a good read of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1549), in 
which the 18 year-old author explains that a tyran lives only because 
subalterns recognize him as tyrant :

    Obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single
    tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses
    consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him
    of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that
    the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it
    does nothing against itself. It is therefore the inhabitants
    themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own
    subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to
    their servitude.

    http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm

- To re-read what Merton wrote in 1942 about communism in science : « 
The substantive findings of science are a product of social 
collaboration and are assigned to the community. They are a common 
heritage in which the equity of the individual producer is severely 
limited... rather than exclusive ownership of the discoverer and their 
heirs. » and ponder over the priority between CVs and knowledge sharing

- To re-read article 27 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : « 
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of 
the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement 
and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the 
moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or 
artistic production of which he is the author. »
and try to imagine what it means:

     - that our world has decided there is a collective right to science 
in which scientists have a big role to play in it (by freely sharing 
their work)

     - that researchers have a right to be protected against publishers 
that terrify them.


Florence Piron (Université Laval), totally fed-up



Le 2016-05-20 à 06:54, Danny Kingsley a écrit :
> <Apologies for cross posting>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of press 
> embargoes.
>
> Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the shadows" - 
> https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653
>
> ********************************
> Something has been rumbling under the surface in the repository world 
> recently, at least in the UK. Over the past six months or so, the 
> Office of Scholarly Communication has had some fraught conversations 
> with researchers who are terrified that their papers will be 'pulled' 
> from publication by the journal. The reason is because some 
> information about the upcoming paper is publicly available.
>
> <snip>
>
> Our researchers are concerned that having the metadata about an 
> article available means that publishers will consider this a breach of 
> embargo and will pull the publication. Note that the Author’s Accepted 
> Manuscript of the article itself (or the data files, in case of 
> datasets) is locked down and the information about the volume, issue 
> and pages are missing as the work is not yet published.
>
> The researchers are worried because there is a need for publication in 
> high profile journals such as/Nature/for their careers and if a work 
> was to be pulled from publication this would have huge implications 
> for them. This has caused a challenge for us – clearly we do not wish 
> to threaten our researchers’ publication prospects, but we are also 
> bound by the requirements of the HEFCE policy.
>
> <snip>
> *************************
>
> Comments welcomed.
>
> Danny
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