Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
Thanks for raising this troubling episode. Like Zach says, this is no reason to impugn OA publishing, regardless of its many challenges (including the dominant author-pays model in the natural sciences and cynical OA opportunism of the Elsevier-buys-SSRN sort). I recently wrote about these issues in IJOC ("Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies"): http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6154 In the wake of Elsevier's takeover of SSRN, if you're looking for a nonprofit OA preprint repository, the brand-new SocArxiv is superb (and built atop the Open Science Framework platform): https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Jeff --------- Jeff Pooley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Media & Communication Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104 484-664-3677 jeffpooley.com Begin forwarded message:
From: air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org Date: December 29, 2016 at 6:00:31 PM EST To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 149, Issue 43 Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:58:02 +0000 From: Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> To: Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives@gmail.com>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Message-ID: <1483027081383.69877@wlu.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Great suggestion, Charlie! ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 10:55 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
May I also suggest, those of you in academic institutions, forward this thread to your librarian. This is a tailor made lesson in both publishing practices and source evaluation. Undergraduate students tend to trust whatever comes out of a database.
And your librarian might hassle Elsevier too. :)
Charlie McNabb, MA, MLIS http://mcnabbarchives.wordpress.com/ http://beyondhankycode.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the reference to your article, Jeff. Downloading it now, as a matter of fact. ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Jeff Pooley <pooley@muhlenberg.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 6:49 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Thanks for raising this troubling episode. Like Zach says, this is no reason to impugn OA publishing, regardless of its many challenges (including the dominant author-pays model in the natural sciences and cynical OA opportunism of the Elsevier-buys-SSRN sort). I recently wrote about these issues in IJOC ("Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies"): http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6154 In the wake of Elsevier's takeover of SSRN, if you're looking for a nonprofit OA preprint repository, the brand-new SocArxiv is superb (and built atop the Open Science Framework platform): https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv Jeff --------- Jeff Pooley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Media & Communication Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104 484-664-3677 jeffpooley.com Begin forwarded message:
From: air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org Date: December 29, 2016 at 6:00:31 PM EST To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 149, Issue 43 Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:58:02 +0000 From: Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> To: Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives@gmail.com>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review Message-ID: <1483027081383.69877@wlu.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Great suggestion, Charlie! ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 10:55 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elsevier and peer review
May I also suggest, those of you in academic institutions, forward this thread to your librarian. This is a tailor made lesson in both publishing practices and source evaluation. Undergraduate students tend to trust whatever comes out of a database.
And your librarian might hassle Elsevier too. :)
Charlie McNabb, MA, MLIS http://mcnabbarchives.wordpress.com/ http://beyondhankycode.wordpress.com/
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