Dear EcologsFollowing on Alexey Voinov's suggestion of sharing our pdf papers like kids today share music, but at the same time, avoiding any copyright mess (i.e. peer-review journals where you published your papers), I would like to remind all that copyright laws allow reproduction of copyrighted material (in paper or electronic form), when the purpose is TEACHING, SCHOLARSHIP or RESEARCH. As long as you indicate that this is the purpose for your pdf sharing, you are within what is allowed by copyright laws. For the benefit of the Ecolog community, below is a short copyright use text. If you choose to do peer-to-peer pdf sharing of your papers, attaching your pdfs to your web sites, or providing upon request, providing also this copyright text might be useful.... I'm no lawyer, just a research scientist trying to open up communication with other scientists and the general public also interested in science.
***COPYRIGHT WARNING Under the Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, applicable also to non-U.S. copyrights based on the Berne Convention, of which the U.S.A. became a member on March 1, 1989: "No part of any copyrighted material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or in any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher." However, Limitations on exclusive rights, as established by Section 107 (“fair use”) of the Law, indicate that: "the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright." The electronic copies provided here are based on the “fair use” limitation of the U.S. Copyright Law, and we are not to be held responsible of those recipients who wrongly choose to use such materials for purposes other than the “fair use” as described above.*** Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Marine Conservation Biologist Ocean Research & Conservation Association 1420 Seaway Drive, 2nd Floor Fort Pierce, Florida 34949 USA www.TEAMORCA.org > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:14:46 -0400 > From: aavoi...@gmail.com > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval > required > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > > Instead of or in addition to boycotting and protesting, I think there is a > much > simpler and effective solution. Ask your kids. If they can share their music, > why can't we share our papers? It's called peer-to-peer technology and > requires > just a little bit of good will from ourselves. All we need is to assemble our > collections of pdf articles that I bet each and everyone of us has on our > hard > disks, and make them available for sharing. > > Students are already doing this. See this article: > http://eaves.ca/2009/04/28/education-where-copyrighters-and-publishers-are-the-pirates/ > > Unfortunately these efforts seem to be sharing the fate of Napster, attacked > by > lawsuits. However this can and will still develop without any centralized > services on a peer-to-peer basis as supported by bit-torrent and other > software. > > So it's really up to us to make it happen. > > > -- > Alexey Voinov > _____________________________________________________________________ > !!!**** please note new e-mail address: aavoi...@gmail.com ****!!! > _____________________________________________________________________ > Chesapeake Research Consortium Community Modeling Program & > Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Geography and Environm. Engineering > 645 Contees Wharf Road, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, MD 21037 > TEL: 410 798-1283; 703 880-1178 WWW: http://www.likbez.com/AV > > Fellow, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics,University of Vermont > President,Int.Envir.Modeling. and Software Soc.,http://www.iemss.org/ > New book: Systems Science and Modeling for Ecological Economics > http://books.elsevier.com/companions/9780123725837 > > > > > >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 16:56:12 -0700 >> From: Wayne Tyson <landr...@cox.net> >> Subject: Re: Open Access and Intellectual Imperialism Approval required >> Re: [ECOLOG-L] Teaching Biostatistics !!! >> >> (Suggested replacement post) >> >> Ecolog: >> >> "In my university I do not have access to literature sources like = >> Biological Abstracts for example to reach the authors and articles . . = >> ." >> >> This is an excellent example, unfortunately, of how pricing = >> intellectual resources out of range for "outsiders" is a moral = >> indictment of much of academia. This man--or any man or woman or child = >> (especially) should never have to hit a university firewall, be required = >> to pay tens of dollars ($30, $40, and more) to download a pdf file, ad = >> nauseam. Think of the burdensome expense and effort required on the part = >> of so many even to gain the privilege of Internet access in the first = >> place!=20 >> >> Those truly concerned about the future of the earth and its life, even = >> civilization, should realize that the history of intellectual = >> development is one of free exchange of ideas and information, not its = >> conversion into profit centers. It is not the struggling who should pay = >> the comfortable, it is the comfortable who benefit from free = >> intellectual synergy that compounds like a breeder-reactor, who should = >> pay forward and backwards to ensure rather than obstruct such exchange.=20 >> >> At long last, hath academia no sense of decency? Are there no = >> institutions out there sufficiently well endowed and clearly = >> beneficiaries of the wealth of intellectual struggle handed down from = >> people like Dr. Voltolini throughout history (and still do--Copernicus, = >> Darwin . . .) who will turn this embarrassing state of arrogant = >> possessiveness around? >> >> Can you imagine having to make this kind of request at every stage of = >> your own process of intellectual enquiry?=20 >> >> How is it possible that, this many years into one of the most = >> transformational achievements of human society, that Dr. Voltolini = >> should still be barred from journal access that costs zero to provide?=20 >> >> Why not, at the individual level, that academics simply boycott = >> journals which charge for access and publish in open access journals? = >> While these may not be perfect at the moment, might not such a = >> second-stage transformation accelerate their development and foster = >> rather than retard intellectual synergy?=20 >> >> WT >> >> PS: David has suggested that I explain "how journals (e.g. those of = >> the Ecological Society) are supposed to pay to publish papers if nobody = >> has to pay to read them." This email is intended to illuminate the = >> problem and hear from others before deigning to suggest how all of the = >> complexities of this issue should be resolved. The first step, of = >> course, is in recognizing the problem or refuting the assertion that = >> there is a problem. I do not pretend, in as brief an email as possible = >> and still state my position unequivocally, to cover every aspect of the = >> subject. I do, however, know of institutions that have cancelled journal = >> subscriptions. I believe that very large institutions (e.g. the = >> University of California Library may have negotiated price reductions = >> from some journals; I am not up-to-date on this case, but the UC Library = >> did raise the issue quite vigorously a few years ago.=20 >> >> I will offer the following observations, and invite correction if they = >> are in error. I hope this helps=20 >> >> 1. The major "clay paper" journals are VERY profitable.=20 >> >> 2. Publishing in such journals is a political balancing act, not to = >> mention that author charges are often involved. (I am not against = >> reasonable author charges if they do not inhibit publication on the = >> basis of merit and are collected on the basis of the ability to pay by, = >> and the benefit to, sponsoring institutions.) >> >> 3. It is impossibly expensive for independent researchers or those = >> whose affiliations do not subscribe to Internet journal service to scan = >> great volumes of literature. Abstracts are wholly inadequate for = >> literature "review." >> >> 4. I recognize that publication costs must be met, but = >> scientific/scholarly/intellectual publications should be financed by the = >> "nobility," not enrich them. Peer reviews should be the obligation of = >> the reviewers to the discipline involved.=20 >> >> 5. I suggested a boycott, but only intend that measure for those = >> entities looking at pdf downloads (for example) as ways to embellish = >> their bottom-lines, particularly when they gouge for them (charge out of = >> proportion to their actual marginal cost). Since intellectual articles = >> are in relatively scant demand, they are not likely to be priced = >> according to pricing theory anyway, so the benefiting institutions = >> should pay the actual costs--plus a margin for a cushion-endowment = >> perhaps.=20 >> >> 6. I do not think David or anyone else should have to be bothered with = >> sending materials to requestors who are deprived of equal = >> privileges/rights. While this is generous in the extreme, there is still = >> a faint sniff of (unintended) patronizing in that, and the requestor = >> must be driven to make the request in the first place. Most simply = >> suffer in silence.=20 >> >> 7. My primary question to Ecolog remains "Is this intellectual = >> imperialism or not?"=20 >> >> 8. One who is "in" simply cannot know what it is like to be "out."=20 >> >> ----- Original Message -----=20 >> From: "VOLTOLINI" <jcvol...@uol.com.br> >> To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> >> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:17 PM >> Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Teaching Biostatistics !!! >> >> >> > Dear friends,=20 >> >=20 >> > I am teaching Ecology and Biostatistics and I am working on = >> different ideas to teach data analyses for Biology students.=20 >> >=20 >> > Now, my students will measure several moluscan shells from polluted = >> and not polluted marine sites (it is a simulation!) and if they read = >> about the subject they will be more interested in the analysis! Do you = >> have articles about the "effect of pollution on shell size" ?=20 >> >=20 >> > In my university I do not have access to literature sources like = >> Biological Abstracts for example to reach the authors and articles and = >> thats why I requesting some articles.=20 >> >=20 >> > Thanks for any help!!! >> >=20 >> > Voltolini >> >=20 >> >=20 >> >=20 >> > Prof. Dr. J. C. VOLTOLINI >> > Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia de Mamiferos (ECOMAM)=20 >> > UNITAU, Depto. Biologia, Taubate, SP. 12030-010.=20 >> > Grupo de pesquisa ECOMAM: http://jcvoltol.sites.uol.com.br/=20 >> > Fotos de projetos e cursos: http://jcvoltol.fotoblog.uol.com.br/=20 >> > Exemplo de um curso de ecologia de campo: = >> http://trabiju.blogspot.com/=20 >> > Fotos artisticas: http://voltolini.fotos.net.br/texturas=20 >> >> >> ----------------------------------------
