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Our science must be free, but the Freedom of Information Act is an intelligent and energetic approach does not have a monopoly of the journal The conflict between snuff giant Philip Morris International and the University of Stirling (and I agree with Heather Brooke that information should be free for companies) is the last of a series of clashes over access to research and Freedom of Information Act. Professor Mike Baillie, dendrochronology, was ordered to deliver data to a banker in the city and the crank of the climate, while the UEA staff were taken to a lack of professionalism and not to meet the demands of 'conspiracy theorists.

There is a clear link between these incidents and complaints in the last days of George Monbiot and Ben Goldacre about the lack of open access to research. Monbiot suggests that academic publishers

"the most ruthless capitalists of the Western World"

Goldacre any recent cases highlighted today

"Robin nerds Hood "

, using their skills to" liberate "the documents for the public to read.

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legal theory can be applied to paywalls and data

, but if you are the documents or data, the applications freedom of information are completely inadequate as a means of access. If your goal is to provide scientific data, and then people have requests under the Freedom of Information Act is only effective strategies to go with the delivery of twins Jedward to kill a buffalo with flint spear rudimentary.

requests for access to information is slow, tedious, and as a means of gathering information about the same in the efficiency of the Battleship game. To make a formal request, wait a month for an answer by saying that his application was a mess and turned away, move two spaces to the left and pull again and repeat until they get what they wanted or who has resigned or died old. Apply this to the research data and there is a good chance that even if available, may be unintelligible, or in a proprietary format, with or without papers.

not enter a period of three months formal exchange email so I can see the data in a document. The application just want to make an HTTP request. I want to be able to find a document on the Internet, reading for free, and then click a button next to download the data to be used (if any) in a standard format so you can have a piece of theater with it. Looks like a pretty basic thing to ask.

The problem is that peer review is an industry in which privatized the public interest is an externality. Premium payments to public research, but not to pay for peer review or publication required to make the finished product - the published research. In contrast, academic journals are in the business of refining and sale of raw materials with the result. In this case, the refined product is sold to research institutions that subscribe. Nobody pays for public access, and it is great incentive for publishers to offer it.

Monbiot's speech "research that is ours," free, but part of the problem is that

not

we belong to at least not as refined. Belongs to companies that create, a few who have a strangehold in the industry. Run over 2000 Elsevier journals, while Elsevier, Springer and Wiley publishing a Adamsian 42% of the research. Academics have to read and post to support their career, and if you do well you have to deal with most everyday.

incredibly high prices Monbiot said -. (" read one article published by one of the Elsevier journals will cost ? 31.50 $ 34.95 fee Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, $ 42"

Ivan Oransky

documents detail some of the others in their individual blogs, RetractionWatch (co-edited with Adam Marcus) and EmbargoWatch. Magazines are often not very clear on the papers being retracted after publication due to problems or fraud, while the embargoes have been criticized for their potential impact on science journalism - some suggest that the embargo to allow magazines

"control [] the way scientists and the press doing business from public discourse."

multiple problems, sometimes

Clusterfuck combine to form a giant, as happened recently with the magazine

"Molecular Biology and Evolution"

that with brio, published a retraction after a paywall notice. Without paying, the public could read:

But he could pay $ 32 for full text:

This article has been permanently withdrawn its publication by the authors.

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