By: Anon
Nice article, Paul: good to see – finally – a social science perspective on these issues. I’ll just drop in a few extra areas that will need some thinking through: 1. Learned societies. Many societies...
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Very interesting post, Paul, a lot to chew on. I can only agree with the increasingly wide consensus that the present system of academic publication is hopelessly broken and out of sync with the...
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Thanks Anon, Good points all. I think my responses would be: 1. I’ve seen some discussion suggesting that learned societies be considered as equivalent to university presses in any new model,...
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Thanks Antoine, I think there are things to watch out for, and to design for should anyone decide to actually do this, but I see the threats you raise as already present. Journals are often already...
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Hi there, Sorry to leave an unrelated comment, but I couldn’t find any contact info for you. I’m wondering if you’d be interested in a guest post. Please drop me an e-mail. Thanks! Anthony
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The discussion above serves to highlight the complex ecosystem we inhabit, of which journals publishing is but one part. Tackling the profits of the publishing sector through boycotts – however...
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[...] All of this is necessary agitprop-cum-utopianism, but what does it mean in a detailed sense? http://thedisorderofthings.com/2012/02/08/academia-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-or-the-journal…...
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[...] The problems of costs involved in such a fantasy are taken up more closely here, considering the time (and concomitant money) involved in such work (though this math-challenged [...]
View ArticleBy: Bookmarks 03/16/2012 « Cairene's Nilometer
[...] is more contingent than we think, and there is real scope for re-thinking the public university and its forms. Ephemeral as it may turn out to be, #Kony2012 should at least jolt us into some...
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