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

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

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> This is not true. A lot of articles are unavailable to certain
>> institutions due to a lack of subscription. A major sticking point.
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> I was only thinking open-access journals, which open-source users (i.e.
> users of python tools) tend to publish their articles in open-journals. Of
> course, there are subscription required articles but those are secondary
> concerns. Sometimes authors make their articles publicly available even the
> article is on a paid journal.

That's a good idea. Steven Boada's comment re: the arxiv is also a
good one. This looks workable :)

>> > 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.
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>> 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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> Citation listing is easier for me, we can go both ways, a page listing only
> citations, another one a more experimental figure/citation if copyright
> issues can be resolved easily. In anyways, we will have to gather citations.
> Let's start doing that?

Sounds good to me. Thanks for all the input.

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Damon McDougall
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