Why do sci. journals never allow access to articles.

Why do sci. journals never allow access to articles.

Antdoghalo View Member Profile	Jan 10 2010, 12:56 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 246 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972	Why does almost every science journals publicatons have to be purchased. This includes Elsevier, Linkinghub, AAS, and a few others others. Whats the point of science journals not allowing access to their published articles. Is this anti access problem a protocol of theirs. Only LPI is being nice and allowing access. -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"

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belleraphon1 View Member Profile	Jan 13 2010, 11:31 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627	Starting in the mid 70's, when library photocopiers got decent, I would hit the magazine stacks and copy articles on unmanned space news. Just about everything Jon Eberhart wrote in Science News I made copies of. I lost all these accumulated notebooks in a house fire in 1990. Until the mid 90's, the only way to get decent information from these missions was to WAIT weeks and months for the weekly and monthly science journals and then sift through the years as data was published in the academic journals. I completely understand the dilemna of academic journals. We live in a world of instant access (not always good - who has the time to just PONDER anymore). We WANT it now! But I think a good compromise is to open these articles to free access after a certain proprietary period. And seriously, if you REAllly want an artcile, usually there is a way to get access. Just takes some searchin and maybe a trip to your university library. Craig

monty python View Member Profile	Jan 14 2010, 07:31 AM Post #3
Member Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 2-March 06 Member No.: 692	QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jan 13 2010, 06:31 PM) Just about everything Jon Eberhart wrote in Science News I made copies of. I lost all these accumulated notebooks in a house fire in 1990. Craig Sorry you lost those reports. Science News lost a lot when he left. I Think I still have some of those issues. We are so spoiled getting almost real time pictures from space. Brian

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Antdoghalo Why do sci. journals never allow access to articles. Jan 10 2010, 12:56 AM

dmg As the Editor-in-Chief of a (medical) scientific j... Jan 10 2010, 01:16 AM

nprev Thank you for that thoughtful, detailed, exceeding... Jan 10 2010, 01:22 AM

ngunn I accept that the institutions as currently consti... Jan 10 2010, 10:17 AM

Paolo I think that the best approach is that of a few jo... Jan 10 2010, 10:39 AM

Juramike QUOTE (Paolo @ Jan 10 2010, 05:39 AM) I t... Jan 10 2010, 04:14 PM

djellison Two points I'll throw in here. Firstly, not A... Jan 10 2010, 01:48 PM

dmg The world is moving towards open access after some... Jan 10 2010, 04:55 PM

Antdoghalo I kind of understood that but making people have t... Jan 10 2010, 09:08 PM

NickF Quote removed - Mod As has been mentioned above, ... Jan 10 2010, 11:28 PM

Greg Hullender QUOTE (NickF @ Jan 10 2010, 03:28 PM) . .... Jan 11 2010, 02:55 AM

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nprev Wow. BOY, am I glad I did grad school in the ful... Jan 11 2010, 05:52 AM

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helvick Don - P2P sharing of some academic\research p... Jan 12 2010, 12:10 AM

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Juramike I think the whole industry is changing. Google Sc... Jan 12 2010, 12:46 AM

belleraphon1 Starting in the mid 70's, when library photoco... Jan 13 2010, 11:31 PM

monty python QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Jan 13 2010, 06:31 ... Jan 14 2010, 07:31 AM

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