The academy, the restrictions of academic journals and his flirtation with the "Open Access" | HAHR-Online

[From Google's English] "Some time wrote on my personal blog about ago tyrannical practices that certain academic journals such as JSTOR or E lsevier performed due to the collection (exorbitant sums) for access to research that, in fact, had been financed by the sector public through taxes, as well as by governments through funding for universities and research institutes. The issue gained even one fatality, when Aaron Swartz committed suicide due to legal persecution that made ​​JSTOR and MIT accused of having downloaded a huge amount of documents from JSTOR site to release for free on the Internet. Then I referred to the vicious circle from which researchers could hardly escape, mainly because of their need to "build a reputation" to serve them in their career, and was only available through publication in these journals academic , despite their abusive policies of distribution and copyright . Notwithstanding the above, mentioned the existence of alternatives to break this vicious scheme that does not benefit but the big academic journals, and seriously affecting not only researchers and academics from around the world, but to society in general, which has barred access to the research contained in these databases, ironically, have helped fund through their taxes. One such alternative was the academic social network Academia.edu , which according to its creator, Richard Price, allows researchers anywhere in the globe and in any field of science, share their work with the growing community of the social network , which although is mainly composed of academics, also counts among its ranks with people without ties to the scientific world, and whose only object to be part of these networks, is seeking information for a particular purpose, information that can be obtained for free via these social networks, and you can also get in touch directly with the author to resolve any doubts. The same applies to academic colleagues who may benefit from immediate feedback on the texts that have shared in such networks, which is certainly beneficial for the correction of the work, and to reformulate hypotheses. The success of these tools online must have been substantial in recent months as one of the major academic journals, Elsevier, recently-legal-notices requested by the Academia.edu academic social network that would remove thousands of Internet Items that have been uploaded by their respective authors to the site. A Academia.edu he had no choice but to act and therefore, are because otherwise it would have caused a number of lawsuits with accusations of piracy that would have cost much time and money. Although Academia.edu had to yield to the requirements of Elsevier, who did through notifications to their users which made ​​it clear that his writings were withdrawn because of legal warnings, not errors or policies of the same social network. One of these thousands of notifications came to Guy Leonard , who shared (with his frustration and dissatisfaction) on Twitter ..."