Hello every body,
It has been quite some time since I have contributed, and I hope this
message finds you healthy and well. Here is a petition. The goal is to push
some editorial boards to drop their lucrative private journal titles and
launch free ones under diamond-copyleft models (as happened to JMLR
w:Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research> and
LingOA w:Glossa_(journal) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossa_(journal)>).
https://journauxscientifiqueslibres.wesign.it/en
In the related video (yeah french too :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PrMrJqsVhw) I've been focusing on the
'french system' (
episcience.org) as an Overlay Journal seemed the easiest
first step for tenured researchers. Feel free to comment debate and produce
around it so wikijournal may benefit from this call.
I've another in english incoming that I have to "re-film". It's the
occasion. (The script is below)
As usual in my actions I've been drawing arrows toward wikimedia, you'll
find under "about us" a wikipage to debate it, change-it etc. I'll also
receive correction there (I hope). I invited to duplicate the study-page
toward en.wikiversity but if you found adequate to forward here (on meta),
I guess it would be adequate too if contribution is more active. Feel free
to translate, distribute... and sign if you agree of course ;-)
BR
Rudy
PS: I started a translation in German. But this language is way out of my
brain since I'm not using it anymore.
the short call was as such
"Wir brauchen eine Änderung der wissenschaftlichen Publikationspraxis.
Sagen wir "raus" zum lukrativen Eigentum, das die Produktion und
Verbreitung von Wissen parasitiert. Wissenschaftler Wissenschaftlerin bitte
erstellen Sie Freie Wissenschaftliche Fachzeitschriften und tragen Sie zu
diesen bei, nativ unter Open Access, APC-frei, Copylefted."
english script
Covid-19 kills, people are afraid and opportunities are opening up.
Petitions are flourishing to re-open access to scientific publications.
We are talking about it. We twitt - chat - sign…
But is that really all of what we can do?
This is the current situation (svg business scholar)
For those who do not know the scholar publishing business, this is simple
representation of how it runs.
The researcher searches, finds, writes his methods and his results, then sends
it for free (most the time) for peer-reviewing and publication in the
journal of his choice.
Then "peers", meaning other researchers read it, correct it, reject or
accept it. The selected “Papers” integrate the journal it is now in the
scientific literature.
The publishers that own the titles then charge these same researchers for
accessing what was produced by them. Actually it is the taxpayer who pays.
Apart from this lucrative loop stands archives where researchers can
deposit their work freely.
You’ll find on the internet majors such as ArXiv or HAL and lots of
institutional repositories too.
If you gave out your rights on the papers … well RomeoSherpa’s site
explains you what to deposit and publishers policies regarding this action.
Of course some researchers in the 90ies thought about using archives as
support for journals of their own. It is called Overlay Journal and is
probably the easiest and cheapest way out of the lucrative loop.
Platforms even exist to do so.
The petition approach is basically asking those you send it for free to no
longer charge for access to what has been given to them.
This is not the only petition currently, nor the first of the kind.
But is this the only way?
Extract "we can't go out"
Do the exercise. Ask a 6 years old child "On this drawing darling, where
should we cut the loop so that you no longer have to pay two or three
times? "
business svg
In universities, these issues are not always understood, explained,
taught, minded,
cared about.
Extract Thèse Gruson
But when you are in a good editorial position (members of multiple
editorial committees, notable reviewers referees, decorated researchers,
etc.) you may have better things to do, in my opinion, than petitions.
You can do better. You have to do better.
Others have already done so!
In linguistics,
LingOA
in mathematics,
JMLR
And without suffering from the problem of "impact factors"
Paid / Free
MLj / JMLR (boxed)
etc. there are others (FJN) “FGN”
I know that the situation could be described in a more complex ways.
Models may vary between platforms
Episcience.org from
french CCSD – a CNRS part
and the OpenEdition journals,
...
Journals are also used for scholarship grants programs. But is this not the
charity of the powerfuls, funds collected on access to knowledge, funds uses
that depends on the will of the editors and publishers?
What do "the Souths" say? Do they want charity or free access to research
from their peers around the world? Where does the recognition of work in
the diversity of languages stand?
Mr. Selosse wishes: “to send a strong signal to the big publishers”
So dear professors _ anyone in such a position _.
Sign out of your editorial board with your colleagues and launch your own
title. You’ve seen it works.
Diamond journal model : online - free of charges (no subscription or APCs)- and
in copyleft to do things right. OK
Wanna send a signal, send a big one. Drop the lucrative ones and go with
your boards for a diamond model overlay journal.
Thanks for freeing our episteme.
*CordialementRudy Patard <rudy.patard(a)gmail.com>*
*06 38 02 53 12*
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Développeur de techniques intermédiaires libres
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