PhilGoetz comments on Science - Idealistic Versus Signaling - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 December 2009 11:08:28PM 2 points [-]

I believe it's only the NIH. Also, in practice, the resulting republications are published in open-access journals; but the software and data produced is often not made available. Often its guardians pretend that they want to make it available, but always give one excuse or another for not making it available right now.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 11 December 2009 12:58:34AM 0 points [-]

I believe it's only the NIH. Also, in practice, the resulting republications are published in open-access journals; but the software and data produced is often not made available. Often its guardians pretend that they want to make it available, but always give one excuse or another for not making it available right now.

Could you comment on journals that require publication of data and software? I read an economics paper that claimed that econ journals with such rules simply ignored them, but that biology had high compliance rates.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 22 December 2009 06:12:23PM 1 point [-]

All the PLoS journals are open-access. Not sure what their requirements are. Other journals typically let authors opt-in for their articles to be open-access (free) if the authors pay a large fee (eg $2000 IIRC). The journals must be quite a racket; the authors pay the publishers, and the subscribers pay the publishers, and the advertisers pay the publishers, and the editors and reviewers work for free.

Comment author: timtyler 22 December 2009 06:15:31PM 0 points [-]

Do any such journals exist?