[DFSci] Knowledge sharing

[Eoghan Casey]

Dear Mike,

I appreciate your comments, and would like to clarify certain points. 

DFRWS is already open source. 

It is the the supporting Journal of Digital Investigation that is not open source. However, the first issue each year is free/open. So, three issues per year require a subscription or are accessible if you are on the peer review Referee Panel (volunteers can contact me directly). I also encourage individual authors to make their paper available as permitted by the Elsevier sharing policy. 

I understand that the annual subscription cost for the Journal is high, and I will pursue the recommendation of trying to persuade Elsevier to reduce the fee for individual subscription. 

Regards,

Eoghan Casey

> On 11 Mar 2019, at 00:51, 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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