[p2p-hackers] Peer-to-Peer Journal (P2PJ) CFP (fwd from sam at neurogrid.com)

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Dec 3 01:52:12 PST 2003


Right now we're getting increasing FUD from the sides of Elsevier & Co
against emerging open content journals. I don't think there's a turning
of the tide, though, as early adopters have already embraced alternative
channels of publication (physicists and math people foremost in arXiv),
and it's only a matter of time before more conservative branches of
science (medical, chemistry and biology people: that's you) are to follow.

We might be getting the publishing monopolists to try grasping for DRM for
paper copyright. I'm wondering why they haven't started watermarking
their .pdfs yet, shough a crawler looking for phrases or computing
document hashes would do just as nicely.

Either way, the librarians are attempting to revolt using whatever
little leverage they have. Fact is, the budgets are shrinking, and
the shelves are emptying, while the content owners have established
a de facto pay per view.

----- Forwarded message from Sam Joseph <sam at neurogrid.com> -----



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