sign here

Video of an imagined dialogue between a scientist and for-profit journal publisher [HT:JS]:

4 Comments

  1. Posted September 26, 2011 at 8:23 am | Permalink

    This is spot on.

  2. Posted September 26, 2011 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    I am signing one of these terrible things today. Perhaps I should feel mocked, but I feel strangely supported in my irritation at signing away my copyright. Thanks!

  3. Posted September 28, 2011 at 10:54 am | Permalink

    everybody talks about the weather but Princeton decided to do something about it (h/t MR)

    anybody care to join me in a locomotive?

    rah rah rah
    sis sis sis
    boom boom boom
    arxiv
    arxiv
    arxiv

  4. Posted October 21, 2011 at 11:56 am | Permalink

    This video address how ridiculous the system is to the author and their audiences. And to add to it, it does not even consider the fees that some journals charge just to review your articles.


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