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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">Seems to me that the Russian thing is a(nother) manifestation of the need to deal with the broader issues. As the article implied, scientific publishing is a unique, peculiar, process. Over the years it has moved from a societal activity, supported by professional participants, for their professional needs, to an economic activity, progressively owned by fewer and fewer participants. This concentration, supported by massive changes in the technological environment, has, inevitably, led to various circumventions, mostly technically illegal. <br>
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Despite strong movements to replace the processes by more equitable means of information dissemination, the legal basis is unchanged. An individual who wishes to have their results well distributed can make a choice. That choice has consequences. <br>
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There it lies, we may try to change the law, an unlikely international procedure. We can defy the law, leading to inevitable prosecution, if the commercial processes are affected. Or, we can live with what we have.<br>
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For me, the last option is the best we can expect.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 27, 2017 7:12:18 PM GMT+01:00, Donald Samulack - Editage <donald.samulack@editage.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I ask that the industry consider whether or not SciHub activities could possibly be the work of one individual residing in Russia, or whether there is something more malicious taking place instead.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am not a conspiracy theorist, but it makes sense to me (and I have not heard any serious argument otherwise) in light of recent Russian attempts to alter the course of the US election (and others), that if Russia <u>really</u> wanted to get into the computers of every research lab and academic institution around the world, there would be no better way to do it than to give away free research articles. Please think about this… a cover for a phishing exercise targeting every atomic energy facility, WHO-sponsored lab, CDC facilities, government and state labs around the world, leading academic institutions housing the world’s cutting edge intellectual property, etc. <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The computing and article collating power that this single person would need to have at her disposal to be able to have the IP change every 10 minutes (as I understand it), archive and mirror the collections, etc. may not be the resources and activities of a single person. We need to consider this possibility in this new world we live in, and also consider the consequences of not taking steps to shut down such potentially corrupt intent, if in fact such intent is ongoing.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Donald Samulack<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(Speaking as a concerned citizen)<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Heather Morrison<br /><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 27, 2017 1:08 PM<br /><b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: [GOAL] Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?<p></p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Indeed, great article. Building on this, a reflection: whatever one thinks of the ethics and legality of Elsevier's lawsuit against SciHub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, it appears to me that she has demonstrated that a Kazhakstani graduate student can provide the bulk of the important services contributed by Elsevier (hosting and serving up articles) at no cost to users, and apparently off the side of her desk. If this is correct, this says something about the real necessary marginal cost for providing this service, i.e. almost nothing.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Considering that academics do the real work of academic publishing - writing and peer review - if the traditional value add of publishers in storing and disseminating articles, necessary in the print and early electronic ages, can now be done for next to nothing, surely we can devise a new system that retains or strengthens quality at a fraction of the cost?</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">best,</p><p></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br />Dr. Heather Morrison<br />Associate Professor<br />École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br />University of Ottawa</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Desmarais 111-02</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">613-562-5800 ext. 7634</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/">http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/</a><br /><a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html</a><br /><a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a></p><p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 2017-06-27, at 11:38 AM, "Reckling, Falk" <<a href="mailto:Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at">Falk.Reckling@fwf.ac.at</a>></p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> wrote:</p><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Indeed Eric, astonishingbackground story, almost all what you have to know about the publishing industry and very well written,<br /><br /><br /><br />Best Falk<br /><br /><br /><br />Von: Éric Archambault<<a href="mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com">mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com</a>><br />Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Juni 2017 09:26<br />An: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)<<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">mailto:goal@eprints.org</a>><br />Betreff: [GOAL] Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?<br /><br /><br /><br />Interesting article in the Guardian that spells out the role played by Robert Maxwell in the development of the scholarly journal industry.<br /><br />Éric<br /><br /><br />Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a><br /><br /><br />Eric Archambault<br />1science.com<br />Science-Metrix.com<br />+1-514-495-6505 x111<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />GOAL mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br /><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />GOAL mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br /><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a></p><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><p> </p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div></blockquote></div><br>
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