<div dir="ltr"><div>The issue, as I understand it, is that publishers want to be the ones who announce the publications of articles in their journals. That part makes sense, right? I mean, if someone else is publishing the news before you, it's not news. Is there something else beyond this that's of concern?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>William Gunn<br>+1 (650) 614-1749<br><a href="http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/" target="_blank">http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/about/</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Florence Piron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Florence.Piron@scienceetbiencommun.org" target="_blank">Florence.Piron@scienceetbiencommun.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>You could tell these researchers :<br>
</p>
<p>- That ambition and competition are not the only values in life</p>
<p>- 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<br>
</p>
<p>- to have a good read of
<font size="+2">Discourse
on Voluntary Servitude (1549), </font>in which the 18 year-old
author explains that a tyran lives only because subalterns
recognize him as tyrant :</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
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. <br>
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm" target="_blank">http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm</a></p>
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<p>- 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<br>
</p>
<p>- 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. » <br>
and try to imagine what it means:</p>
<p> - 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)</p>
<p> - that researchers have a right to be protected against
publishers that terrify them.<br>
</p>
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</p>
<p>Florence Piron (Université Laval), totally fed-up</p><div><div class="h5">
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Le 2016-05-20 à 06:54, Danny Kingsley a écrit :<br>
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<Apologies for cross posting><br>
<br>
Hello all,<br>
<br>
Our latest blog on Unlocking Research is looking at the issue of
press embargoes. <br>
<br>
Below is a teaser from "Press embargoes – a threat from the
shadows" - <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653" target="_blank">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=653</a><br>
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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.</span><br>
<br>
<snip><br>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'PT Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'PT Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The researchers are
worried because there is a need for publication in high profile
journals such as<span> </span><em>Nature</em><span> </span>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.</p>
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Danny<br>
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