[SystemSafety] Access to the SCSC document archive

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

Folks,

Mike Parsons and Tim Kelly wrote to me yesterday, following my complaint about access controls on
SSS papers and other documents in the SCSC archive.

Tim assured me that access to SCSC documents on the WWW site is/will be free upon registration
(which is routine and costs nothing). The Knight paper was unavailable due to a glitch, and is now
available again. I have changed my blog post to reflect this welcome information.

This only applies to the self-published SCSC archive (2013 onwards). I take it Springer has
exclusive rights to the previous (except for my papers and some others who didn't sign the contract).

This is excellent news. Open access is always excellent news. I have been promoting it in word and
deed for 23 years now. Although I regret to say I was wrong in thinking that the WWW would render
the traditional scientific publishing models obsolete (in fact, the situation has become rather
worse - the prestige of traditional journals for academic careers has been retained and prices have
meanwhile become prohibitively expensive for public institutions, let alone for individuals).

Springer still wants $29.95 per article for its SSS proceedings up to 2012. But people can read my
SSS2012 article on the Fukushima Accident for free on the RVS page at
https://rvs-bi.de/publications/Papers/LadkinFukushimaAccOnlineVersion.pdf I realise that not
everyone has such opportunity.

And it could be worse. One relatively new high-quality journal which I would like to read has some
open-access articles, but the vast majority cost €151 per article!

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
MoreInCommon
Je suis Charlie
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de





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