Comments on: Can Canada save its safe injecting experiment from the politicians’ axe? http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/05/03/can-canada-save-its-safe-injecting-experiment-from-the-politicians-axe/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:42:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Lee Rudolph http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/05/03/can-canada-save-its-safe-injecting-experiment-from-the-politicians-axe/#comment-696 Lee Rudolph Sat, 03 May 2008 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/05/03/can-canada-save-its-safe-injecting-experiment-from-the-politicians-axe/#comment-696 "(I’d love to provide you with a link to the original article; the IJDP is the official journal of the International Harm Reduction Association, but they’ve decided to limit their policy impact by publishing through a restricted access Elsevier journal.)" (1) Assuming (which the Mop&Pail article doesn't make clear) that "the original article" is _The Canadian government's treatment of scientific process and evidence: Inside the evaluation of North America's first supervised injecting facility_, the IJDP does at least make the abstract available for free, at www . ijdp . org/article/S0955-3959(07)00219-8/abstract (extra spaces inserted for safety). (2) It's quite amazing -- no matter how hard Springer-Verlag tries, Elsevier always finds a way to be even wretcheder. My most recently accepted article will soon appear in a Springer journal. When I was filling in the paperwork, including signing over the copyright, Springer actually gave me the choice of letting their online version of the article be open-access! The only catch was, it would have cost me $8,000. (I don't know if that's a flat fee or a per-page fee; the article is 8 pages in proof, so the latter hypothesis is not entirely paranoid.) I did not avail myself of their offer. On the other hand, Springer does allow me to keep a copy of the article freely available on my own website, without fee, so long as I acknowledge their publication, and that copy isn't type-set so as to appear to be The Real Thing. “(I’d love to provide you with a link to the original article;
the IJDP is the official journal of the International Harm Reduction Association, but they’ve decided to limit their policy impact by publishing through a restricted access Elsevier journal.)”

(1) Assuming (which the Mop&Pail article doesn’t make clear) that “the original article” is _The Canadian government’s treatment of scientific process and evidence: Inside the evaluation of North America’s first supervised injecting facility_,
the IJDP does at least make the abstract available for free, at
www . ijdp . org/article/S0955-3959(07)00219-8/abstract (extra spaces inserted for safety).

(2) It’s quite amazing — no matter how hard Springer-Verlag tries, Elsevier always finds a way to be even wretcheder. My most recently accepted article will soon appear in a Springer journal. When I was filling in the paperwork, including signing over the copyright, Springer actually gave me the choice of letting their online version of the article be open-access! The only catch was, it would have cost me $8,000. (I don’t know if that’s a flat fee or a per-page fee; the article is 8 pages in proof, so the latter hypothesis is not entirely paranoid.) I did not avail myself of their offer.

On the other hand, Springer does allow me to keep a copy of the article freely available on my own website, without fee, so long as I acknowledge their publication, and that copy isn’t type-set so as to appear to be The Real Thing.

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