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

[Floris v. B. <flo...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...>wrote:

> 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.
>


Yes.. this is indeed a problem.. perhaps there could be a list of citations
specifically to open journal articles (many journals make papers public
after some period of time), in addition to ones that are only available
with a subscription. After all, many of those looking to use matplotlib in
a scientific publication are usually at an institution with access. That
way people who don't have access don't have to waste time finding links
that work for them.



>
> 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.
>

Many journals copyright the final product, so an author could only 'donate'
a figure to the gallery if they had written permission from the journal
that published their paper. Lame, I know.

Similarly, if someone wishes to reproduce a figure for news coverage or a
review article, they need permission from the journal, not the author.

- Floris





>
> > 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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