This doesn't solve your problem, but I have two thoughts that might be useful: publishing an open-access of your pay-wall papers and pushing WikiSym to the next level.
*Open access version* I've recently taken up the practice of re-writing my research papers for the internet with an open license. For example: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/summaries/The%20Rise%20and%20Decline/ I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that complete re-writes of any content represent a new creative product. Sadly, this also might cause confusion about which version of the paper is the "official" version. I've been including a letter to the reader in my online versions to reduce any confusion. This approach may solve your immediate need. *Growing WikiSym into an open conference* WikiSym is a great venue for research on open collaboration systems. Publications though this conference are included in ACM's digital library and are, as you might expect, not open licensed. However, the WikiSym community has been on the verge of switching away from ACM towards an open license model for years. Recently WikiSym has also suffered from stagnation. Although there is a lot of work on open collaboration systems, most of the best work gets published in other, more general conferences like CSCW for a variety of reasons (higher attendance, lower acceptance rate, etc.). I see combining the academic WikiSym with the less-academic (but equally, if not more awesome) Wikimania and other conferences/symposiums/communities that are interested in this topic as one potential way to grow the conference and make it a more enticing publication venue. Such a transition might require a switch to an open publication format. I'm very interested in continuing this conversation. -Aaron On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jodi Schneider <[email protected]>wrote: > Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good step. > > I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to > give advice. But generally, I don't think that we need more journals. > > Rather, let's make open access the journals that we have. This has been > done in some communities. For instance, the high energy physics community > created a coalition to use existing subscription money (and perhaps new > funding) to pay for making journals open access [2]. I would be happy to > help create and solicit library and grant funds for such a coalition, with > a group of interested people. This would start from identifying a core list > of journals. > > -Jodi > > [1] http://journal.code4lib.org > [2] http://www.scoap3.org/index.html > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been thinking recently that we should start this journal. There >> isn't an obvious candidate, despite some of the amazing research that's >> been done, and the extreme transparency that allows much deeper work to be >> done on wiki communities in the future. >> >> Would some of the Wikipapers folks be interested in working on this? I'm >> thinking of something like a law-review model where much peer review >> happens by young researchers that are more junior (professionally) than the >> submitted papers, but very very skilled at review and editorial technique. >> Which fits our community as well as it does lawyers. >> >> SJ >> >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:49 AM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all; >>> >>> I like the journals that work under the same (or similar) principles of >>> free knowledge projects, a.k.a. open-access journals. >>> >>> I would like to publish some paper regarding to wikis in that kind of OA >>> publications, do you have any recommendation? >>> >>> I found First Monday, which is peer-reviewed and OA, but it is not >>> indexed in ISI. Any more suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Regards, >>> emijrp >>> >>> -- >>> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >>> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >>> Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> | >>> StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es> >>> | WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> | >>> WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com> >>> | WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/> >>> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 >> 529 4266 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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