DRM work and Open Access Publishing in Science

On December 8, 2005 I was in Brussels at the DRM in Public Science, 4th INDICARE Workshop. I presented in the afternoon "New Paradigm for Regulation of TPM/DRM: reconciling the interests of copyright owners and the public".

Most interesting was the presentation by Ulrich Poschl who explained why so many scientific publications are not very useful and not of good quality and how this was due to the failure of traditional journal publishing. The representatives from the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) or Springer (another science publisher) could not realy refute this and they had to listen to Poschl' sucess story of the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The "vision" behind this interactive journal is truly to promote scientific knowledge through a multi stage publication process that includes interactive peer review and public discussion. it was more about transparency than control, the usual theme around publishing and DRM. Posch was convincing.

His paper "Interactive journal concept for improved scientific publishing and quality assurance"
Ulrich Poschl, Learned Publishing, 17, 105-113, April 2004 (invited article), (PDF, 623 KB) is available on the Web at
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/os/ad_page.html

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http://www.indicare.org/tiki-view_articles.php