"Walled gardens" in the science publication area can persist for years

Back in 2006, IPBiz made reference to Dan Hunter's law review article on "walled gardens":I could not help thinking about Dan Hunter's article, Walled Gardens, 62 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 607, which complained about the requirement of some law reviews that articles which had been pre-published on an internet website to be removed from the website BEFORE publication in the journal. The common theme is the perceived undesirability, by the journals, of information being made available on the internet. The noncommon theme is the timing. The SCIENCE journals have the expectation of presenting the information FIRST, and worry about the impact of later publication. The LAW journals do not care that the information has been presented somewhere else first, but don't want someone to access the information (presented elsewhere first) AFTER they decide to publish it LATER. IPBiz post: Journal publication, pubmedcentral and the ACSIp-watch.org has a post on copyright…

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