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[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] I have no objection between this looser connection between the journal and ox, as mathieu suggests ... I was not aware thought that I was pushing for an open review process ... I don't recall interventing on that issue, Michel On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Mathieu O'Neil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>wrote:
[Converted from multipart/alternative] [1 text/plain] Hi Stefan and all- I don't really understand what is meant by "a discussion by articles"? In any case your message has helped to focus some thoughts about this project (which I'm also very happy with btw! and thanks to all those who have pitched in so far and / or offered to help). First, what would be gained by an open review process (which Michel seems to be pushing for but you declare to not work so well with texts) in relation to a traditional peer review model? This is a genuine question. The good thing about a traditional review process is that it is a focused exercise: the reviewers know they have to produce a review by a certain date; otherwise they get hassled by somebody. In an open review process I can't imagine the editor / maintainer / whoever having any grounds to "pressure" anyone to "improve" or "critique" a contribution. And, if no-one is interested, it just won't happen... and things could drag on forever. I'm all for experimenting with new forms but I also want to make the project as good as possible. So there needs to be a rationale. I'm also thinking of how to present the project to possible other scientific committee members: how to define any other process of dealing with submissions other than peer review? Perhaps the fact that we will be discussing (as much as possible) reviews and any other issue on this list is in and of itself quite an innovation and a step towards peer production of research? My second point is the relationship beween Oekonux and the journal. Obviously both these projects are interested in the same things (researching and extending peer production) and equally obviously Oekonux is in a sense the "patron" or "publisher" of the journal as it will be hosting the journal website. But, I think we should be careful about making them too integrated in terms of content - or rather I don't agree with how you formulate the direction of this integration. What I'm trying to say is that what in my view would be the best is a space where people in the Oekonux network can communicate and exchange with other people including academic researchers in an equal way. If however there is a perception that the journal and [ox] are one and the same (so that for example anything that is published on an [ox] website can automatically translate to the journal) I fear that this may harm the scientific credibility of the journal, by giving the impression that it is an extension of the [ox] project rather than a scientific or strictly merit-based endeavour - and this in turn would harm our chances of attracting contributions from academic researchers. I wouldn't want us to have a boring journal with only academic stuff but neither would I want us to scare away potentially useful contributions from academics. So in brief what I would say is that the peer-reviewed "pearls" in the journal could happily be featured on the [ox] website, rather than the other way around. Hope this makes sense, cheers, mathieu ----- Original Message ----- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de> Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:41 am Subject: Topic style and/or issue style (was: Re: [jox] Request for comments) To: journal oekonux.org Cc: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>Hi all! BTW: This project feels very good to me :-) . 2 days ago Mathieu O'Neil wrote:This argument goes deeper though - why limit a journal to afixed format? Why not have a process,where there would be a series of evolving articles as StefanMzsuggested?>Well, there are some counter-arguments. Two that come to mindimmediately are:- when Debian release a new release, they number it and_announce_ it widely. If on tbe other hand we have only articles in progress there is nothing to announce other than "article X is (more or less) finished". In my view that has a lot less impact than the announcement of a themed issue. My interest is in having as big an impact for our perspective as possible. There are already lots of bits and pieces floating about the net - what is needed in my view is something more coherent. I agree and particularly for this reason of impact.- if we want to attract outside contributors and not justmembers of the [ox] network "traditional" aspects of a journal such as date and number which can be referenced for scholarly or other purposes are helpful. With the "process" approach this is not possible. It's not a huge deal or anything but once again to my mind it potentially lessens the potential impact a bit. I agree with this also.I'm not saying that I don't think the idea of peer productionof article is interesting. We could integrate this idea to the journal by having a stream of articles that are worked on collectively etc in parallel to the regular issues, and when they are deemed ready they can be formally published - a bit like the various versions of code that Debian has? I feel there is a misunderstanding here. I understood StefanMz that we have a discussion *by* articles - not a *single* article evolving on and on. That would mean that there are finished articles which (may) relate to each other. In fact I think this is the approach how a text based development is done best. StefanMz' OpenTheory tried the approach to improve an article by peer production but I think this doesn't work very well for texts. Also as an author of texts I prefer that a text is finished at some point. New thoughts {sh,c}ould be part of a new article.Neither am I saying that I dont like the idea of responses toarticles as suggested by Michel - on the contrary! To stick with the example of Christian's peer economy it would be great to have several articles discussing it and then his response as an issue. But once again in my view publishing this as a single package would have a lot more impact than a staggered release over time. Yes. 2 days ago Stefan Meretz wrote:A combination of both approaches could work, if we have somedifferentpublishing stages: draft, web-ready, issue-ready.May be it helps to think about the goals of the journal. I think among the goals are these: * create a coherent / focussed discussion space * create impact in various communities * gather a body of great articles The main means for this is to gather great articles matching the focussed space. How the impact is created then is a mere organizational question. And the organizational question IMHO comes down to the channels we provide. I could easily imagine many channels merging topic and issue style together: * Have a website The website would be the static backbone of the journal. A place where you can go at any time and also a place where permanent URL's point to. I could imagine very well that the website is organized around topics like "governance", "mode of production" or "practical examples" - granularity needs to be discussed probably. It can also be linked to blogs (though I'm certainly not an expert on blogs...). BTW: I agree with StefanMz here that the new Oekonux website would be a good place for the journal. At the very least we are working on the technical preconditions for this. * Have regular issues From the ever growing body of articles it is easy to create issues which are then announced by different channels. An issue would then be a special selection of articles selected either by a certain topic or only the latest releases. It would also be thinkable that if we want to set up a new topic then we can call for articles which are then gathered in a special issue of the regular journal. A regular issue could also be limited in size so we would put the real pearls in the regular issue and keep less brilliant articles just on the website. * Have email announcements For those who are continously interested in the journal we could have an announcement mailing list where finished articles are announced independent of issues. * Have backchannels The easiest way for backchannels would be comments on the website but I would not rule out other means. 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