[Taxacom] Paywall our taxonomic tidbit

Thu Jan 14 17:27:45 CST 2016

How is the fact that you have to pay per page published an incentive to
write as many pages as possible, compared to not having to pay per page?

Cheers,
Daniel

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> Cut the ad hominem rhetoric Frank. I don't see evil everywhere. But I can
> do the maths and see that $20/page multiplied by many thousands/year of
> taxonomic papers of limited interest amounts to a significant amount of
> public money spent on making stuff available to read when hardly anyone
> wants to read it. It is also an incentive for some authors to pad out their
> papers to be as long winded as possible.
>
> Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 15/1/16, Frank T. Krell <Frank.Krell at dmns.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: RE: [Taxacom] Paywall our taxonomic tidbit
>  To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>, "
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>, "Peter Uetz" <
> peter at uetz.us>
>  Received: Friday, 15 January, 2016, 11:51 AM
>
>  Disseminating results is
>  an essential part of the scientific endeavor. If public
>  money is intended for research, this includes making the
>  results known.
>
>  You see evil
>  problems everywhere, don't you, Stephen. Even in a
>  $20/page open access charge.
>
>  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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>  Frank.Krell at dmns.org
>
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>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu]
>  On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe
>  Sent: Thursday,
>  January 14, 2016 3:02 PM
>  To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu;
>  Peter Uetz <peter at uetz.us>
>  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Paywall our taxonomic
>  tidbit
>
>  Peter Uetz said:
>  Just make your papers available to everybody, not just the
>  few lucky ones
>
>  Not sure if
>  he was being sarcastic? I hope so. It amounts to "just
>  make your papers available to everybody (whether they want
>  to read it or not), not just the few who actually want to
>  read it (and pay for it with public money intended for
>  research!)"
>
>  Stephen
>
>
>  --------------------------------------------
>  On Fri, 15/1/16, Peter Uetz <peter at uetz.us>
>  wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re:
>  [Taxacom] Paywall our taxonomic tidbit
>   To:
>  taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>   Received: Friday, 15 January, 2016, 7:20 AM
>
>
>   Yes! —
>  Zootaxa is probably the best deal you can get.
>   I paid for an open access paper in Zootaxa out
>  of my own  pocket, and this was a single author paper.
>
>   For teams, some of which may
>  have grant money available, it  is a no brainer.
>   Just make your papers available to everybody,
>  not just the  few lucky ones.
>   Especially
>  if you believe that nothing in biology makes  sense except
>  in the light of taxonomy, sorry..., evolution
>   :)
>
>
>   > ------------------------------
>   >
>   > Message: 9
>   > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:58:22 +1300
>  > From: "Geoff Read" <gread at actrix.gen.nz>
>  > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>  > Subject: [Taxacom] Paywall our taxonomic tidbit  >
>  Message-ID:
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>   > Content-Type:
>  text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1  >  > Am I
>  unreasonable in expecting minor contributions to  Zootaxa
>  to be  > affordable for authors as open access as a
>  convenience  for their readers?
>   > For
>  instance that's USD 20 for each author in today's
>  worst 2 page case!
>   > Hopefully they earn
>  (or did) much more that per hour.
>   >
>   > http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4066.2.5
>   >
>   > Happens quite
>  frequently - what are these contributors  thinking? Should
>  we  > perhaps start a fund to help them out?
>   >
>   > --
>
>  > Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
>   >
>  Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
>   > gread at actrix.gen.nz
>   >
>   >
>
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