A systematic review and critical appraisal of this 'voluntary society publishing'would be a good thing.
I would offer up the IASSIST Quarterly, (ISSN: 0739-1137) a peer-reviewed, indexed, open access quarterly publication of articles dealing with social science information and data services. "IQ represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services." http://www.iassistdata.org/iq The IQ has been issued since 1977 http://www.iassistdata.org/iq/back-issues Been a struggle sometimes though - which is one of the challenges for endeavours when there is another day-job. Peter [I am a Past-President of IASSIST but can claim no credit for the effort and expertise put in by others on the IQ - perhaps when I retire ...] On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Richard Poynder wrote: > Is there an umbrella organisation that represents independent > community-based journals like these? If not, should there be such an > organisation? > > > > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf > Of Laurent Romary > Sent: 09 August 2012 10:44 > To: Bo-Christer Björk > Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly > communities/institutions > > > > Thanks. Are these all managed on their own? > > Laurent > > > > Le 9 août 2012 à 11:42, Bo-Christer Björk a écrit : > > > > > > 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> 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. 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