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08 Mar 16
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I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same.
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The economy around academic journals is crumbling.
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o cope, most academic publishers are going psycho conservative.
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Authors must sign contracts vowing not to put the articles or even drafts online.
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they do this for free.
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Why not instead publish with open-access online-only journals produced as labors of love by communities of volunteer scholars (i.e. many open-access journals)?
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If scholars are publishing for audiences of zero, no wonder no one respects them.
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Open-access, online-only journals have four key costs: bandwidth, copyediting, marketing, and staffing costs.
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I believe that the product of our labor should be a public good. I do not believe that scholars should be encouraged to follow stupid rules for the sake of maintaining norms.
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Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals.
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Publish in open-access journals, build a personal webpage and add your article there. You will get much more visibility, especially from younger scholars who turn to Google before they go to the library.
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Younger scholars can’t afford to publish in alternate venues until you begin recognizing the value of these publications. Help that process along and encourage your schools to do the same.
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You might as well use this opportunity to make the valued journals the open-access ones.
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Go out of your way to cite articles from open-access journals.
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Begin subscribing to open-access journals and adding them to your catalogue.
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Silencing the voices of academics is unacceptable. Y
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Require your grantees to publish in open-access journals
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I am a young punk scholar and I strongly believe that we have a responsibility to stand up for what’s right. Open-access is right.
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I strongly believe that those who will benefit the most from open-access publishing will be the academics who pour their heart and soul into their research and writing.
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Being present in library catalogues and key databases is critical to visibility.
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his is about transparency and making certain that those who want to engage with scholarship can.
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Maybe they’ll change their publishing and distribution strategy so as to make open-access viable (especially given that the libraries would love to move away from physical journals and pay-per-print is viable for those who want a bound version).
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27 May 15
Fenella OlynickDr. Alec Couros states, "boyd discusses why and how academics should begin to subvert the tradition of publishing in locked-down academic journals. It’s a controversial notion for many, and tradition is difficult to change. There’s been only very slow progress for this movement that, on principle, seems to make good sense. Simply stated, the open access movement seeks to make the work of publicly funded academics open to the general public."
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17 May 14
Stephanie BoychukOpen access and open academic journals - freely available publicly funded research.
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- Libraries: Begin subscribing to open-access journals and adding them to your catalogue. Many of you do this, but not all. Open-access journals are free. Adding them to databases does costs money but it helps scholarship and will help you ween off of expensive journals in the long run.
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- Libraries: Begin subscribing to open-access journals and adding them to your catalogue. Many of you do this, but not all. Open-access journals are free. Adding them to databases does costs money but it helps scholarship and will help you ween off of expensive journals in the long run.
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- Funding agencies: Require your grantees to publish in open-access journals or make a pre-print version available at a centralized source specific to their field. Many academic journals have exceptions for when funding agencies demand transparency. You can help your grantees and the academic world at large by backing their need to publish in an accessible manner. Furthermore, you could fund the publishing of special issues in return for them being open-access or help offset a publisher’s costs for a journal so that they can try to go open-access. (Tx Alex)
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Most academics cannot afford to buy the journal articles, either in print or as single copies so they rely on library access. The underground economy of articles is making another dent into the picture as scholars swap articles on the black market. “I’ll give you Jenkins if you give me Ito.” No one else is buying the journals because they are god-awful expensive and no one outside of a niche market knows what’s in them.
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Academic publishers try to restrict you from making copies for colleagues, let alone for classroom use.
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Academic publishers expect authors to do both for free because that’s how they achieve status. At the same time, they are for-profit entities that profit off of all of the free labor by academics. Some might argue that academics are paid by universities and this external labor is part of their university job. Perhaps, but then why should others be profiting off of it?
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Academics are publishing to increasingly narrow audiences who will never read their material purely so that they can get the right credentials to keep their job.
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Open-access, online-only journals have four key costs: bandwidth, copyediting, marketing, and staffing costs. The latter is often irrelevant in fields where editors volunteer. It’s not clear that marketing is necessary or cannot be done for free. There are all sorts of possible funding models for bandwidth. This leaves copyediting.
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I think that scholars have a responsibility to make their work available as a public good. I believe that scholars should be valued for publishing influential material that can be consumed by anyone who might find it relevant to their interests. I believe that the product of our labor should be a public good.
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Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals. Unlike younger scholars, you don’t need the status markers because you’re tenured or in industry. Use that privilege to help build new journals that are not strapped to broken business models. Help build the reputations of new endeavors so that they can be viable publishing venues for future scholars.
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Tenure committees: Recognize alternate venues and help the universities follow. Younger scholars can’t afford to publish in alternate venues until you begin recognizing the value of these publications. Help that process along and encourage your schools to do the same.
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All scholars: Go out of your way to cite articles from open-access journals. One of the best ways for a journal to build its reputation is for its articles to be cited broadly. Read open-access journals and cite them.
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Libraries: Begin subscribing to open-access journals and adding them to your catalogue. Many of you do this, but not all. Open-access journals are free. Adding them to databases does costs money but it helps scholarship and will help you ween off of expensive journals in the long run.
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Funding agencies: Require your grantees to publish in open-access journals or make a pre-print version available at a centralized source specific to their field. Many academic journals have exceptions for when funding agencies demand transparency. You can help your grantees and the academic world at large by backing their need to publish in an accessible manner.
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When it comes to the trafficking of scholarship, much has changed since the journal system was created. There used to be a day when scholars would read everything new that was published in their field, or at least everything published in the top journals. The path to success was to publish in the top journals because it was assumed that everyone in the field would read it. For most fields, this is no longer the case.
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The flow of their scholarship looks very different than the flow of traditional fields with a hierarchy of publishing venues. While innovations in search change the information landscape, access is the missing component.
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I love academic scholarship; my frustration with academic publishing has to do with equality, access, and the meaning of a public good. One of my critics is correct – this is about transparency and making certain that those who want to engage with scholarship can. I don’t think that academics should necessarily be writing for public audiences, but I do think that their work should be publicly accessible.
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I strongly believe that we can have top journals without restraining ourselves to locked-down publication models. I don’t think that the two have to go hand-in-hand, but I do acknowledge that moving towards a new system without the support of the traditional academic publishers who profit off of the locked-down model will be extremely bumpy.
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I’m reminded of John Gilmore’s quote: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” I see locked-down journals as a form of censorship.
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30 Apr 12
Tim McCormick"Scholars have a responsibility to make their work available as a public good." http://t.co/1LeoNgdT Sorry if I am going on about this.
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06 Mar 12
Lea Everingopen access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals http://t.co/31Am0N2T #helc12
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05 Mar 12
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25 Jan 12
Joseph Kraus"I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same."
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26 Oct 11
Library LSHTMDanah Boyd on why she will no longer publish in 'closed' journals and her call to other academics on a boycott of 'closed' journals
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20 Oct 11
cristina costaSo @zephoria has joined @courosa in boycotting locked-down journals - http://t.co/ifTCli2i HT @clairebrooks #OpenAccess
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Monika E. König"open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals" http://t.co/31Am0N2T #eci831
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You will get much more visibility, especially from younger scholars who turn to Google before they go to the library
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Universities: Support your faculty in creating open-access journals on your domains. You are respected institutions. The bandwidth cost of hosting a journal would be much less than allowing your undergrads access YouTube. Support your faculty in creating university-branded journals and work with them to run conferences and do other activities to help build the reputation of such nascent publications. If it goes well, your brand will gain status too.
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06 May 09
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06 Feb 09
Gideon BurtonAwesome explanation / discussion of Open Access with a great list of suggested action for academics of all stripes
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When it comes to the trafficking of scholarship, much has changed since the journal system was created. There used to be a day when scholars would read everything new that was published in their field, or at least everything published in the top journals. The path to success was to publish in the top journals because it was assumed that everyone in the field would read it. For most fields, this is no longer the case. Young scholars are not indoctrinated into a field by reading every issue of the top journals. They are more likely to search for articles related to their topics of interest than to browse a few top journals. Being present in library catalogues and key databases is critical to visibility. Publishing in the top journals still increases one's likelihood of visibility and citation, but it's more about status now.
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14 Nov 08
Chip ChaseOn one hand, I'm excited to announce that my article "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence" has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). On the other hand, I'm deeply
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Simon GI vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I'd like to ask other academics to do the same.
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24 Feb 08
Pru Mitchelldanah's dilemma sparks lots of discussion. "I was forced into signing all sorts of papers that forbade me from uploading pre-prints for a year."
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18 Feb 08
Seb PaquetI vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I'd like to ask other academics to do the same.
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17 Feb 08
Ed Daniel"At the same time, they are for-profit entities that profit off of all of the free labor by academics"
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Lisa Spirodanah boyd's declaration that she will no longer publish in non open-access journals
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edtechtalkjm: a bit "inside baseball", but an interesting take on academic publishing and "open" access
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Jennifer Maddrelljm: a bit "inside baseball", but an interesting take on academic publishing and "open" access
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15 Feb 08
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A more assertive argument around locked down journals.
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11 Feb 08
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Bibliofusion Pierre ChicoineI vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I'd like to ask other academics to do the same.
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Michel BauwensSage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form, you'll probably never get to read the cleaned up version.
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"I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I'd like to ask other academics to do the same."
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08 Feb 08
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07 Feb 08
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Julia Lesagea cogent argument for an important cause; given the international reach of the Internet, anyone concerned for the spread of knowledge should make their writing available free to as many people as possible
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