* Posts by icandoscienceme

2 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jul 2011

19,000 papers leaked to protest 'war against knowledge'

icandoscienceme

@ Arthur - Self-archiving

Given the number of publishers listed below as allowing authors to archive their papers, maybe your experience is the result of a lot of authors not wanting their papers to be open access, or just not bothering...

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/browse.php?colour=green&la=en

icandoscienceme

@"My approach"

"The frequency with which this works makes me think that most journals do, indeed, restrict access against the authors' wishes."

No, it means that most journal author agreements actually ALLOW authors to post their papers on their websites and the whole "war on knowledge" argument is a specious one, created by freetards who are opposed to copyright at a much more basic level.