Comments on: ATG Hot Topics of the Week: Open Access and Boycotting Journals http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-and-boycotting-journals/ Linking librarians, publishers and vendors Sat, 18 May 2013 19:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Hot Topic of the Week: More on the Elsevier Boycott (and Author Rights) | Against-the-Grain.com http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-and-boycotting-journals/comment-page-1/#comment-40173 Hot Topic of the Week: More on the Elsevier Boycott (and Author Rights) | Against-the-Grain.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:26:41 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=10462#comment-40173 [...] Last week we noted the kerfuffles about journal prices and open access publishing, and in particular the call for an Elsevi.... [...] [...] Last week we noted the kerfuffles about journal prices and open access publishing, and in particular the call for an Elsevi…. [...]

]]> By: Stevan Harnad http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/02/atg-hot-topics-of-the-week-open-access-and-boycotting-journals/comment-page-1/#comment-40155 Stevan Harnad Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:55:13 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=10462#comment-40155 POGO: "WHY ARE RESEARCHERS AGAIN BOYCOTTING INSTEAD OF KEYSTROKING?" http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/869-.html While the worldwide researcher community is again busy working itself up into an indignant lather with yet another publisher boycott threat, I am still haunted by a "keystroke koan": ---- "Why did 34,000 researchers sign a threat in 2000 to boycott their journals unless those journals agreed to provide open access to their articles - when the researchers themselves could provide open access (OA) to their own articles by self-archiving them on their own institutional websites?" ---- Not only has 100% OA been reachable through author self-archiving as of at least 1994, but over 90% of all refereed journals (published by 65% of all refereed journal publishers) have already given their explicit green light to some form of author self-archiving -- with over 60% of all journals, including Elsevier's -- giving their authors the green light to self-archive their refereed final drafts ("postprint") immediately upon acceptance for publication... So why are researchers yet again boycotting instead of keystroking, with yet another dozen years of needlessly lost research access and impact already behind us? We have met the enemy, Pogo, and it's not Elsevier. (And this is why keystroke mandates are necessary; just keying out boycott threats to publishers is not enough.) POGO: “WHY ARE RESEARCHERS AGAIN BOYCOTTING INSTEAD OF KEYSTROKING?”

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/869-.html

While the worldwide researcher community is again busy working itself up into an indignant lather with yet another publisher boycott threat, I am still haunted by a “keystroke koan”:

—- “Why did 34,000 researchers sign a threat in 2000 to boycott their journals unless those journals agreed to provide open access to their articles – when the researchers themselves could provide open access (OA) to their own articles by self-archiving them on their own institutional websites?” —-

Not only has 100% OA been reachable through author self-archiving as of at least 1994, but over 90% of all refereed journals (published by 65% of all refereed journal publishers) have already given their explicit green light to some form of author self-archiving — with over 60% of all journals, including Elsevier’s — giving their authors the green light to self-archive their refereed final drafts (“postprint”) immediately upon acceptance for publication…

So why are researchers yet again boycotting instead of keystroking, with yet another dozen years of needlessly lost research access and impact already behind us?

We have met the enemy, Pogo, and it’s not Elsevier.

(And this is why keystroke mandates are necessary; just keying out boycott threats to publishers is not enough.)

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