[DFSci] Knowledge sharing

[Joe Sylve]

It is my understanding that the University of California has terminated its
contract with Elsevier and currently will not license any of its journals.
In addition, they are encouraging their faculty and researchers to publish
open access.  This is in response to (perceived or actual) predatory
practices in the academic publishing industry.

Here's the initial call to action from last June:

https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/slasiac/docs/NegotiatingJournalAgreementsAtUC_ACallToAction_final.pdf

And here's the statement from the end if February when they made their
decision:

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/academic-council-statement-elsevier-feb28.pdf

Some additional links:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/uc-and-elsevier/

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 7:23 PM Simson Garfinkel <simsong at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> What do you mean that UC abandoned Elsevier in favor of open access? Do
> you mean University of California? For which publication?
>
> Simson
>
>
> > On Mar 10, 2019, at 8:18 PM, Joe Sylve <joe.sylve at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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