Re: [ox-en] scientific lockdown by publishers: the case of hacking capitalism
- From: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa cbs.dk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:02:14 +0100
Michel Bauwens wrote:
Hi Gregers,
Great to hear from you
And would you have any sympathy for the choice of Johan?
I have full sympathy for the choice of Johan (and we all have to wait
for the paperback issue of the book).
What is a lesser known and not yet so upcoming young academic to do?
Depends - if a young academic wants to have a job, they probably have to
play by the rules.
But, there are also more open ways to go about it - several of the
bigger academic associations are beginning to work on 'public' website
based journals (also peer-reviewed) such as:
http://www.theasa.org/publications/asaonline.htm
You can also say: Fuck it, I'll just publish my book as
'print-on-demand' (including an ISBN number) and see if anybody will buy
it (then it could be ordered through all the big internet-bookshops).
Or publish your articles in journals who have a more open-access
approach, or are independent?
So what I mean is the problem is structural, and your problem with
Danah should not distract from that issue.
I think we all agree that the problem is structural - that Danah plays a
dumb game about 'that she doesn't know this' is what I object against.
The only way to work against this structural rigidity is to think about
your choices, and stand by what you did/do (and Danah could just have
posted her paper on her blog, then people would be able to read it).
I've personally (in this phase of my life) decided to license my work
under GNU GPL 2.0 - things I've written in the past have been under
"normal" copyright (but I don't ask anybody to feel sorry for me).
Chz
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