Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Knowledge and Equity: analysis of three models

2020-06-26 Thread David Wojick
is probably unrealistic. What we are seeing is progress on many disconnected fronts. That is probably the best we can hope for. The notion of somehow globally optimizing governance is particularly problematic. David Wojick Inside Public Access On Jun 26, 2020, at 3:54 PM, Glenn Hampson wrote:  I’ll

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Knowledge and Equity: analysis of three models

2020-06-26 Thread David Wojick
distant topic, profit is a public good if it provides a public service. Food, for example. David Wojick Inside Public Access On Jun 26, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Kathleen Shearer wrote:  Glenn, all, I don’t think there really is a large variation in current definitions of open; but there are some

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-21 Thread David Wojick
A lot of industry research is directly related to products and services so the results are proprietary. As an example, after I discovered the issue tree I was getting sole source federal contracts to do them, because only I knew how. So I never published anything on them. Google does more R

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-21 Thread David Wojick
I dislike metaphors in reasoning but in the travel case the publishers are more like the official who approves your visa to enter their country, for a fee. The idea that one can restructure an industry without consulting the leading producers strikes me as unlikely to work. It is a coup and

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-20 Thread David Wojick
her. > We’ve been skipping a necessary step in this process for far too long. > > Best, > > Glenn > > > Glenn Hampson > Executive Director > Science Communication Institute (SCI) > Program Director > Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI) > > >

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-20 Thread David Wojick
of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, > Illinois 61801 > ljani...@illinois.edu, 217-333-1323 (v), 217-244-4358 (f) > > > > From: David Wojick > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 2:41 PM > To: Hinchliffe, Lisa W > Cc: Glenn Hampson ; Thatcher, Sanford Gray &

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-20 Thread David Wojick
ruction > University Library, University of Illinois, 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, > Illinois 61801 > ljani...@illinois.edu, 217-333-1323 (v), 217-244-4358 (f) > > > > From: scholcomm-requ...@lists.ala.org on > behalf of David Wojick > Sent: Monday, April

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-20 Thread David Wojick
Sci) ; Glenn Hampson > > Subject: Re: [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly > Communications: A Call for Action > > I suspect there are lots of limits to common ground. In fact the hypothesis > that there is significant common ground strikes me as untested, much l

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action

2020-04-20 Thread David Wojick
I suspect there are lots of limits to common ground. In fact the hypothesis that there is significant common ground strikes me as untested, much less proven, especially if one includes the more radical positions. David Wojick > On Apr 20, 2020, at 1:54 PM, Thatcher, Sanford Gray wrote: >

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] On Academic Freedom

2018-03-27 Thread David Wojick
The point is that the dominant role of copyright in scholarly publishing is to benefit the publisher, to the detriment of OA, not the author. In fact it is argued that OA benefits the author. This is why Wallinsky's simple OA proposal is to reduce the copyright term to the minimum needed to

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] On Academic Freedom

2018-03-24 Thread David Wojick
s anything to do with academic freedom. So I would say that things like contract requirements have nothing to do with academic freedom, unless they specify what cannot be said. Copyright does not do this. David David Wojick http://insidepublicaccess.com/ At 03:26 PM 3/24/2018, SANFORD G THATCHER

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] On Academic Freedom

2018-03-24 Thread David Wojick
is to shorten the term of the copyright granted to the author. This copyright transfers to any publisher that requires it as a condition of publication. David Dr. David Wojick http://insidepublicaccess.com/ On Mar 24, 2018, at 4:07 AM, Danny Kingsley <da...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: &g

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for researcharticles

2018-03-23 Thread David Wojick
are claimed by some to be in the billions of dollars. That some professors might make a few thousand dollars less does not stack up well against that. David Wojick At 12:54 PM 3/23/2018, SANFORD G THATCHER wrote: >It's highly unlikely that Frankfurt or the other author I mentioned received >any f

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for researcharticles

2018-03-23 Thread David Wojick
omain, Frankfurt would have been a much less wealthy man and PUP >denied >the opportunity to publish a best seller. Do you really want to make this kind >of serendipity impossible to achieve? > > > > >On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 11:03 AM David Wojick <dwoj...@craigellachie.us&g

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for research articles

2018-03-23 Thread David Wojick
less glacial tempo, sometimes... OA could have used a dose of the global warming in which DW does not believe...) On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:08 PM, David Wojick <<mailto:dwoj...@craigellachie.us>dwoj...@craigellachie.us> wrote: John Willinsky has a fascinating OA proposal, namely tha

Re: [GOAL] [SCHOLCOMM] Willinsky proposes short copyright for research articles

2018-03-22 Thread David Wojick
ica Great > Again"...) > > (And now, back to a world where things actually move forward at a less > glacial tempo, sometimes... OA could have used a dose of the global warming > in which DW does not believe...) > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:08 PM, David Wojick <d