[DFSci] Knowledge sharing

[Joe Sylve]

Does anyone have contacts at UC?  They recently abandoned Elsevier in favor
of open access.  They produce tons of research.

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/uc-and-elsevier/

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 6:51 PM Mike Wilkinson <mike at writeblocked.org>
wrote:

> +100
>
> Justifying the $1492 subscription pretty much puts the Journal beyond
> the reach of your average LE agency and is hard to justify on the
> commercial side too. It is also not included in the default higher
> education subscriptions, unless they are teaching forensics or digital
> forensics courses and have specifically requested it. Moving to open
> source would open it up to a much wider audience.
>
>  From a professional perspective the individual subscription of $308 is
> roughly the same as ACM, IEEE and Usenix membership combined. Which
> provides access to a wealth of publications, although unfortunately not
> DFRWS.
>
> On 3/10/19 7:26 PM, Joe Sylve wrote:
> > How feasible would it be to abandon Elsevier and go completely open
> access?
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 3:15 PM Eoghan Casey <eoghan at disclosedigital.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear friends, colleagues and members of the community I do not yet know:
> >>
> >>
> >> Both as an author and Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Investigation
> >> journal, I understand the importance of accessibility of knowledge in
> our
> >> field.
> >>
> >>
> >> While working hard to ensure that Digital Investigation meets the needs
> of
> >> our community, I continuously strive to increase the accessibility of
> >> content as described here:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.journals.elsevier.com/digital-investigation/news/inroads-to-digital-investigation
> >>
> >> I also encourage authors to make their own papers available on their
> >> personal websites or blogs, and by other means described here:
> >>
> >> https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing
> >>
> >> I welcome your reasonable suggestions to make Digital Investigation
> better
> >> serve our international community.
> >>
> >> Eoghan Casey
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