Good idea,
Here are four such journals, all of which have been there since the 1990s:
Information Research
Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Journal of Electronic Publishing
First Monday
best regards
Bo-Christer Björk
Journal of On 8/9/12 11:35 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
Dear all,
As an echo to the fourth option mentioned by Peter, I would like to
gather references to journals and initiatives which are notoriously
community based. Could members of the list point to what they would be
aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Laurent
Le 7 août 2012 à 16:11, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit :
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Sally Morris
<sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk
<mailto:sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>> wrote:
We should not delude ourselves; journals can only be 'free' if
someone pays
the costs.
All the work involved in creating and running a journal has to be
paid for
somehow - they don't magically go away if a journal is e-only (in
fact,
there are some new costs, even though some of the old ones
disappear).
I can only see three options for who pays: reader-side (e.g. the
library);
author-side (e.g. publication fees); or 'fairy godmother' (e.g.
sponsor).
There is a fourth option, which works: the scholarly community manage
publication through contributed labour and resources and the net
amount of cash is near-zero. This is described in
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/ where
the J. Machine Learning Research is among the highest regarded
journals in the area (top 7%) and free-to-authors and
free-to-readers. There is an enlightening debate (on this URL)
between those who run the journal and Kent Anderson of the Scholarly
Kitchen who cannot believe that people will run and work for journals
for the good of the community.
There is no law of physics that says this doesn't scale. It is simply
that most scholars would rather the taxpayer and students paid for
the administration publishing (either as author-side or reader-side)
so the scholars don't have to do the work. And they've managed ot get
10 B USD per year. If scholars regarded publishing as part of their
role, of if they were prepared to involved the wider community (as
Wikipedia has done) we could have a much more C21 type of activity -
innovative and valuable to the whole world rather than just academia.
It would cost zero, but it would be much cheaper than any current model.
And of course we now have a complete free map of the whole world
(openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org/>) which is so much
better than other alternatives that many people and organizations are
switching to it. And, for many years, it didn't have a bank account
and existed on "marginal resources" from UCL (and probably still does).
But most people will regard this as another fairy tale.
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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