Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...> wrote:
> Seeing mpl produced plots would be only 1 or 2 clicks away, plus this would

This is not true. A lot of articles are unavailable to certain
institutions due to a lack of subscription. A major sticking point.

Am I wrong in thinking that journals copyright the final product?
Thus, it would be up to the author(s) to decide whether or not to
'donate' a figure for a gallery.

> provide context to the use of plots rather that extracting figures and
> putting them separately (dealing with copyright issues and such) on an
> alternative gallery page. The figures you linked look shinny but not much
> practical use in my field.

Point taken on the context argument. I'll take that. To resolve it,
make the figure/html image link to the underlying publication?



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