In the wiki-research mailing list we are talking about Open-Access journals
and new ways to publish and disseminate research results. A summary is
available http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Research_Ideas
2012/9/24 Risker
> On 23 September 2012 22:24, Tim Starling wrote:
>
> > On 23/09/12 05
Tim Starling, 24/09/2012 04:24:
According to the PDF, each published article costs them 1954 GBP, and
brings in a revenue of 3256 GBP. A very nice business to be in. They
already charge the authors a processing fee of 2000 GBP per article,
so they could break even with open access, without increa
There are also other kinds of business models:
http://scoap3.org/
The topic is complex, I know
and Open Access is about a shift of an entire system,
is not about Elsevier (which is important but (just) a main actor in a big
play).
Peer review is crucial, of course,
but I wonder who is being paid:
To give some idea of how poor the research for the writing is:
"/This article originally and incorrectly referred to Gibraltar as an
island. It is a peninsula."/
Were they to correct the rest of the errors in the article there would
be very little of the original left.
Just as an example:
On 24/09/2012 03:49, Risker wrote:
the costs of peer review
I have academics complaining to me that they don't get paid for peer
review, so I'm not sure what these costs are.
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Free speech in the US is, I believe, generally considered to exclude
both "fighting words" and "shouting fire in a crowded theatre".
On 20/09/2012 04:56, Fred Bauder wrote:
I think any laws should be couched in terms of damaging foreign
relations or inciting to riot. I'm not sure they would be
Attempts to de-switch templates are resisted at every turn by folk who
have CS 101. :-P
On 21/09/2012 05:14, Steven Walling wrote:
Template authors on any and every wiki, this one's for you. ;)
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From: Tim Starling
Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:07 PM
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I wonder if a few iconic Islamic related expressions could not also be
included such as burning or threatening to burn a copy of the Koran?
There would have to be scienter, knowing its significance, of course; a
fact that was not present in a recent case in Pakistan where a
developmentally handicap
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Richard Farmbrough
wrote:
> On 24/09/2012 03:49, Risker wrote:
>>
>> the costs of peer review
>
> I have academics complaining to me that they don't get paid for peer review,
> so I'm not sure what these costs are.
Someone has to edit the magazine, pre-accept pape
It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of how
to manage such things with volunteers.
Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced model
where the most esteemed publications are run by students.
On Sep 24, 2012 6:33 PM, "George Herbert" wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of how
> to manage such things with volunteers.
>
> Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced model
> where the most esteemed publications are run
On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> > It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of
> how
> > to manage such things with volunteers.
> >
> > Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and w
FYI
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:33:29 -0400
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> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] (semi-OT) Open access "catastrophic" for Elsevier
>
> It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of how
> to manage such things with
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