{"id":980,"date":"2012-02-03T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:54:29","slug":"research-works-act-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Research Works Act, ctd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some interesting development in the case of the Research Works Act. Some grassroots activism has now forced Elsevier to <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/As-Journal-Boycott-Grows\/130600\/\">respond to the criticisms<\/a> of scientists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A protest against Elsevier, the world&#8217;s largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. By Tuesday evening, about 2,400 scholars had put their names to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thecostofknowledge.com\/\">online pledge<\/a>\u00a0not to publish or do any editorial work for the company&#8217;s journals, including refereeing papers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsevier did provide a little bit more information on what they see as their role in adding value to scientific research:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What publishers charge for is the distribution system. We identify emerging areas of research and support them by establishing journals. We pay editors who build a distinguished brand that is set apart from 27,000 other journals. We identify peer reviewers.\u00a0And we invest a lot in infrastructure, the tags and metadata attached to each article that makes it discoverable by other researchers through search engines, and that links papers together through citations and subject matter. All of that has changed the way research is done today and makes it more efficient. That&#8217;s the added value that we bring.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judge for yourself whether you are convinced.\u00a0Conspicuously missing from their comments was any indication they would retract support for the Research Works Act. There was also this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not sure why we are the focus of this boycott, but I&#8217;m very concerned about one dissatisfied scientist, and I&#8217;m concerned about 2,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tough question! Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeleisen.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=814\">hint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some interesting development in the case of the Research Works Act. Some grassroots activism has now forced Elsevier to respond to the criticisms of scientists: A protest against Elsevier, the world&#8217;s largest scientific journal publisher, is rapidly gaining momentum since it began as an irate blog post at the end of January. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}