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Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules

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On 13/09/2014 21:43, Hils wrote:
> On 2014-09-13 20:18, polygonum wrote:
>> This was an actual issue we came across as various medical research
>> documents relevant to her conditions were only available to her within
>> the local library. (They might have also been available on the internet
>> at extortionate rates like 35 dollars for 24 hour access to one paper.)
>> With the rarity of one condition being such that hardly any medics could
>> even spell or pronounce its name, let alone know anything about it,
>> access seemed very important. In the end it was simply too much of a
>> burden to go through with raising the issues and trying to get them
>> resolved.
>
> ISTR that the UK was going to introduce mandatory open access publishing
> for public-funded research, but that wouldn't be much use if the
> research you're interested in is privately-funded.
>
> I also STR a campaign by leading academics against the extortionate
> prices charged by academic publishers, I don't know what effect it has had.
>
You are right about UK public-funded research - and I think the same 
might apply to the USA. However, there is an inevitable long period 
between the original commissioning of the research and eventual 
publication. I think that much research currently being published 
started before the policy had been formulated or implemented. Really 
must find out where we are...

Some journals have patient-access programs which can help. Others have 
free access a year after publication. And some (bizarrely) seem to have 
open access between initial putting on-line of the draft and formal 
"this is now published" - if you are lucky you can snag a copy albeit 
with some revisions/edits possibly not yet made.

Other than that, the publishers seem simply to keep increasing the 
costs. And much of the current relevant research appears to be happening 
within a few pharmaceutical companies for they have seen some possible 
inroads to the development of medicines with much wider interest and 
greater profits. Many of the papers written by those researchers will 
never see the light of day at all.

-- 
Rod

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Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-13 13:13 +0000
  Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 17:27 +0100
    Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court   rules polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-13 20:18 +0100
      Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court   rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 21:43 +0100
        Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court     rules polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-13 21:57 +0100
          Re: Libraries may digitize books without permission, EU top court     rules Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-09-13 23:14 +0100

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