Dear Martin Cooke,
thanks for bringing up the issue of open access for ISCA archive (http://www.isca-speech.org/iscapad/iscapad.php?module=article&id=6070), something I have heard people – myself included – complaining about regularly.
From an author’s and reader’s perspective, I do not see a single reason for having a closed members-only ISCA archive. Here are some arguments for an ISCA archive that is open to everyone (there are of course many more):
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Currently ISCA archive is only accessible for ISCA members. Working in an interdisciplinary field (artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, speech science, linguistics) many of my colleagues who are potentially interested in my work have no interest in becoming an ISCA member because speech science and speech technology is not their field of research. Accessing my ISCA papers is not possible at all for them.
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Is the right to self-archive the preprint – or even the official version – of Interspeech papers granted by ISCA (on personal websites