----- Forwarded message from James Salsman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Jonathan Cline
wrote: I would like to register my distaste for seeing advertisements within research publications aka journal articles. Science/AAAS (Sciencemag.org) is one major offender noticed so far.
Taxpayers pay for research. Journals are charging $$$ for access to that research. Some journals are now inserting Advertisements directly into the research papers.
This is a very distasteful practice. Frankly it is insulting. I would purposely avoid purchasing products from advertisers who choose to attach advertisements directly to published journal articles.
Today I updated pdfparanoia to remove AAAS/sciencemag ads from papers. Call it "AdBlock for Science" if you will...
https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia/commit/cc7d14d173be9b4a79adb97fba0929...
Samples: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/To%20Favor%20Survival%20Under%20Foo... http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Large-Pore%20Apertures%20in%20a%20S... http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Reconstituting%20Organ-Level%20Lung... http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/Laser%20Scribing%20of%20High-Perfor... http://www.era-mx.org/biblio/Ostrom,%202009.pdf
I would also appreciate other samples if anyone has them. So far only papers since 2012 have these ads. But this is a disgusting trend.
- Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507
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