[Taxacom] Proposed Amendment to the Code

[Frank.Krell at dmns.org]

don't know why the last message was sent prematurely - sorry
here comes the second part:

So for a paper of 10 printed pages, or in case of Nature much less, an amount of $5000 seems to be overly generous. The difference between our museum journal and journals of professional publishers is twofold. First, we are a small operation, involving a subject editor, an editor-in-chief, and a three person production team. Second, we don't make profit. Many learned societies rely on making profit with their journals, and professional publishers, or course, don't want to break even - they want to make profit to survive.

Still, $5000 seems to be quite generous, and I would never be able and never be willing to pay such an amount for one little paper.

Frank

Dr Frank T. Krell 
Curator of Entomology 
Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Chair, ICZN ZooBank Committee
Department of Zoology 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 
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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Zander [Richard.Zander at mobot.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:36 AM
To: Kipling (Kip) Will; TAXACOM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Proposed Amendment to the Code

Open Access can be lucrative to publishers. I recently responded to a
survey by Nature Publishing regarding a possible Open Access journal
they are contemplating. The last question was "Would you be willing to
pay US$5000 for publishing an article?" I replied "Laughable."

Only people with NIH grants would be able to participate in Open Access
if all publishers were this avaricious, grading to venal and mercenary
if payment helped ensure publication. Open Access can open a can of
worms.

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Kipling (Kip)
Will
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:30 PM
To: TAXACOM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Proposed Amendment to the Code

If governmental funding agencies mandated that all publications
resulting from research significantly supported by public funds (e.g.
NSF, NIH, USDA) must be Open Access with relatively loose copyright
control, we would see a pretty rapid shift and appropriate technology
would emerge to handle these issues. Just follow the money.

After all it is the people's money and so the results and information
should be publicly and freely available. Our taxes already paid for it
once. Maybe some publishers would lobby against this.

cheers,
Kip

(p.s. No, I haven't always published OA, but I am changin' my ways)

L Penev wrote:

> 1.      Open access (OA) - *mandatory* for taxa descriptions on the
day of
> publication (Gold OA) and *highly recommended *for the whole papers
where a
> new taxon is described. How to separate new taxa descriptions from the
rest
> of the respective papers then to avoid copyright problems? Providing
XML
> files of new taxa descriptions to recognized repositories such as EOL
and
> taxon-based aggregators or linking XML files to the Official Register
would
> be an relatively easy way to solve the problem and to ensure an
immediate
> availability and long-term persistence of descriptions. Needless to
say, the
> best possible policy here is to recommend Gold OA for the taxonomic
works in
> general.


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Kipling W. Will
Associate Professor/Insect Systematist
Associate Director,Essig Museum of Entomology

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