Yesterday I was very very angry. Today I am incandescently furious. TL;DR I cannot access an article I authored 23 years ago without paying a "ransom" to the publisher. I am also not allowed to re-use my own article. 1/n
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Here's the article. I challenge any of you to read it. I'm just one of the authors (publishers don't care about authors, only their institution's money, so I can't read it. Actually I doubt *anyone* can read it. 2/npic.twitter.com/Znt0UyePhm
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It's an important article. I'd say it was 25 years ahead of its time. It describes in great detail what a comptatble semantic journal is (not that
@Rzepa and I actually built computable articles - mainly dead now in the graveyard of publishers) 3/n1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
It's had 7 views, apparently and 1 citation. That means it's rubbish, right? NO! It means the publisher has made it impossible for anyone to read. This is what I call "artificial scarcity of knowledge". Publishers should be publishing, not hiding. 4/n
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OK, maybe I can take a copy of the article and put it on my web page where it can be read. Let's see whether I am allowed to: (hold breath in excitement). NO! I am the author and I am not allowed to re-use my own work 5/npic.twitter.com/YFmN5DW03U
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The reason this is so awful is that it's automatic. All closed access publishers assume that everything that passes through their company belongs absolutely and eternally to them and they can hold the world to ransom. 6/n
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They have built automatic systems for enclosing and hiding knowledge and recovering ransom/rent. This is so efficient and automatic that huge swathes of content are effective destroyed for ever 7/n
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Automatic can be fought with automatic (your article is on http://booksc.org for instance), it's the legality that prevents building on such anti-automations.
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Thanks - agreed. But making public knowledge available to everyone is effectively impossible even when it is technically legal. Universities implicitly unite with publishers to prevent it.
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