[Discuss] Access to Academic Articles

Fri Jan 3 20:39:39 UTC 2014

Hello all,

I agree that it is a great idea and I also think that we have many members
that would be very interested in both participating and contributing.
Also,  I think that it would be difficult to find a single journal that
would cover everyone's interests. If that is true, then it would also
justify the creation of a new journal. As a side note, I also think that we
should try to also have some presence as an organization to already
established conferences and journals.

The directory of open access journals might also of some interest:
http://www.doaj.org/
Regardless of how we decide to proceed, I will be more than glad to help.

Best,
Harris

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Matt Dexter <mhldexter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Alicia & all,
>
> An Open Hardware (open access) journal would be very welcome indeed- I
> have been fortunate in that the peer-reviewed conferences that I have
> submitted to are open access (e.g. The European Academy of Design. See
> craftingthefuture.se for last year's papers), although the opportunity to
> publish 'in the open' would definitely be something to consider!
>
> After all, if I were to blind-review a paper for a 'regular' journal, I
> wouldn't expect payment as reviewer- how much better to be reviewing a
> paper in the knowledge that the publication will be available to the whole
> community.
>
> Great suggestion- I'd be well up for getting involved!
>
> Matt Dexter
>
> Designer & Researcher
> Open source & Medical
> Sheffield, UK
>
> On 3 Jan 2014, at 19:10, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for posting this thread. It is indeed frustrating that research
> (including publicly funded research) is so hard to access.
> There's the Open Research Network soon to be publishing journals:
> http://www.openresearchnetwork.org/
>
> A few of us at OSHWA have been wondering if OSHWA should attempt to create
> an open access journal on open hardware, or if our time would be better
> spent submitting to one of the other open access journals. Would love to
> hear the community's thoughts on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Alicia
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:30 PM, malcolm stanley <
> a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Harris, thanks for that... I'm still in discovery phase and gathering
>> citations, so I don't have a good list I could give you... and  that is
>> part of the challenge, right, that research is an iterative process until
>> you understand its boundary with development?
>>
>> but good feedback, thanks!
>>
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>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Harris Kyriakou <ckyriako at stevens.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Another idea is to search at the websites of the authors. Many of them
>>> unofficially share their published papers.
>>> As a more temporary solution and if you have have a specific list of
>>> papers you are interested in, I will be more than glad to help you get
>>> access.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Harris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu <
>>> tiberius.brastaviceanu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Option 3 is very effective if you are part of a network containing
>>>> individuals affiliated with academic institutions. We use it a lot in
>>>> SENSORICA.
>>>> On Dec 31, 2013 9:01 AM, "Joshua Pearce" <professor.pearce at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Malcom,
>>>>>
>>>>> You have hit on a major problem in academia  - lack of basic access to
>>>>> past research. Even publicly funded research is often behind absurd pay
>>>>> walls. You are not alone -- even relatively good academic libraries rarely
>>>>> carry all of the titles. I can't get access to some of my own work without
>>>>> paying $50/paper. Many academics share your frustration and the open access
>>>>> movement in academia is growing strong. I am confident that in the near
>>>>> future everything will be freely available - all federal funded research in
>>>>> the US is about to go that way following the NIH model....and OSH will be
>>>>> next :)
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't help you with your project today - so I have a few
>>>>> recommendations:
>>>>> 1. Look in the open access repositories where we post our preprints
>>>>> such as
>>>>> https://www.academia.edu/
>>>>> https://www.researchgate.net/
>>>>> http://arxiv.org/
>>>>> even a simple  http://scholar.google.com/ searches for the articles
>>>>> that you are interested in sometimes turn up free versions
>>>>> 2. If you can at least get to the abstract page on the paid page - you
>>>>> should be able to get the email of the contact author. If you email the
>>>>> author, ask for a copy while saying something nice and that you "want to
>>>>> read it in order to cite it"....that should work 90% of the time.
>>>>> 3. Make an academic friend in the field that would be willing to share
>>>>> their personal database with you (e.g. Zotero, Mendeley etc) so that you
>>>>> can get you most everything else.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best of luck
>>>>> Joshua
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.
>>>>> Associate Professor
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>>>>> Department of Materials Science & Engineering
>>>>> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
>>>>> Michigan Technological University
>>>>> 601 M&M Building
>>>>> 1400 Townsend Drive
>>>>> Houghton, MI 49931-1295
>>>>> 906-487-1466
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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