On 4/10/2012 12:34 AM, Patrick Cunningham wrote:
> For those of us who do write the occasional article for a professional association, we generally give up the rights to that publication.
This opens up a real can of worms and the ongoing debate and move 
towards open source journals because of the greed of publishers, who 
take your intellectual property, and charge you to access your own 
articles. There is a growing movement among academic and other 
researchers in public organisations towards publication in open access 
journals, and for researcher identification to be in the same domain. 
South Africa made the move some time ago to open source journals. Other 
countries are moving in the same direction.

One of the biggest issues is that a lot of research in Australia, cannot 
speak for other countries, is publicly funded. The research findings and 
data should be available for use, and reuse in an innovative economy. 
Why should the public pay for the research in the first place and then 
pay again to access it through a publisher?

Jenny Evans

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