Gold Access and so on

Writing about web page https://www.xkcd.com/2085/

Lots gets said about the importance of open-access publishing. Researchers are under pressure to publish papers which are "Gold Access" (translation: they pay the publisher quite a lot of money so that the paper can be accessed freely by all and sundry). Many people discussing this, and/or making policy decisions, appear not to have noticed that in many research fields new work is invariably released as a freely available preprint using the wonderful arXiv <https://arxiv.org/>, for which the publication cost is extremely low (mostly met by academic institutions). For example virtually all of my work of the last 14 years can be found there using <https://arxiv.org/a/kendall_w_1.html>.

The web-comic xkcd makes the point well <https://www.xkcd.com/2085/>.

Wilfrid Kendall : 17 Dec 2018 19:15 |  Tags: Arxiv Xkcd |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem