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

[Nelle V. <nel...@gm...>]

On 5 October 2012 21:23, 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.
>
> 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.
>

I think it depends on the journal, and on the agreement. I think in most
journals you/your institute can pay to have your paper publicly available.

I wouldn't be shocked if a requirement to be in the gallery would be to
donate a figure.


>
> > 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.
>

I was just showing an example of a gallery of published figures. It is much
easier to go through a gallery, to quickly see what a library is capable
of, than clicking on links to articles, that may often be of closed access.



>
> 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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