[Open-access] [GOAL] Re: Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke

Tue Nov 6 12:00:41 UTC 2012

The distinction between publishing for communication and publishing for
reputation is valuable. Maybe by changing and improving the former (which I
think OKFN is well placed to do) we can separate them. 

This is the mission of the journal I work on - we aren't interested in
chasing a respectable impact factor and we don't charge at either end, we're
also starting to publish/translate from other languages for free.  We want
everyone to be able to read and publish articles with no barriers.  There is
funding available for us to do this so it shows that it can be done.

We're currently looking into Alt metrics as a fairer alternative to the
impact factor - I'm hoping this is the way publishing will go
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ 

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[mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: 06 November 2012 08:58
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Subject: Re: [Open-access] [GOAL] Re: Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke

Copied only to the OKFN open-access list.

It may be useful to consider the question: "what can we do to change the
situation?" - the OKF has a strong tradition of building things to change
the world. The distinction between publishing for communication and
publishing for reputation is valuable. Maybe by changing and improving the
former (which I think OKFN is well placed to do) we can separate them. 

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

Publishers are capitalists - I don't think they'd argue the point.

This is a generalization. Many learned societies and scientific unions are
not capitalists.  

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069

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