Dear Andrew,
Absolutely not! In fact, I think we should ban all the drivel that is
not peer-reviewed.
Published papers are not closed to anyone with an academic library or a
subscription. While some journals are open access, such as ACP, others
like Science, Nature, JGR, and Journal of Climate are not. Someone has
to pay for publishing, and none of these, with the possible exception of
Nature, are for profit. They are published by AAAS, AGU, and AMS, which
are professional societies. And every author will be happy to send
reprints to anyone who asks, so there is really no hindrance to anyone
reading any peer-reviewed published paper.
So I reject your assertion that open access is necessarily better than
journals for which someone has to pay. And I reject your attempt to
turn this list into just opinions and not the distribution of quality
research. And the only standard for quality is peer review. Peer
review is imperfect, but it is better than any alternative.
Alan
Alan Robock, Professor II (Distinguished Professor)
Editor, Reviews of Geophysics
Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
Department of Environmental Sciences Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222
Rutgers University Fax: +1-732-932-8644
14 College Farm Road E-mail: rob...@envsci.rutgers.edu
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551 USA http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock
On 6/22/2012 7:02 PM, Andrew Lockley wrote:
Dear Members,
A question: Should we ban members sending their own papers to the
list if these papers are not open access, or file-attached?
To allow this practice to continue seems like we're offering tacit
support for closed access publication of geoengineering research. I
note both the growing open-access movement, and the particular
sensitivities around any perceived secrecy in geoengineering research.
Furthermore, in practical terms, posted closed-access research is not
available for non-academic list members, of which there are many.
This clearly hinders subsequent list discussion of attached papers.
I'd be very interested to hear members' views on this matter.
Thanks for your time.
A
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