Marieke A. Helmich
Denny BorsboomI find it amazing how quickly academic Twitter has ceased to be. All the interesting stuff seems to be at Mastodon these days. So now that we're at it: could we maybe also just get rid of academic publishers by massively defecting to diamond open access journals?
Hans Rocha IJzerman@dennyborsboom let’s go all in with @PeerCommunityIn
Anja Schillhaneck@dennyborsboom could you point me to what hashtags and groups you follow to see a broader slice of #academicfediverse? ‘Cause my own TL over there indeed broke down, and I’d love to find the debates again.
@Maristya you could atart by following who I follow. I gets lots of interesting stuff every day. Also: boost everything that’s remotely interesting, as Mastodon does not have a recommender algorithm.
@dennyborsboom I never used recommender algorithms over at the birdsite. So I wouldn’t here. Always built my TL be boosted/RTed interesting posts.
David Lohner@Maristya @dennyborsboom you could peek into this collection of lists, groups and servers for academics on mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Matthijs@dennyborsboom I couldn’t agree more. Also in higher education we should strive to use articles in open access journals for teaching as much as possible.
John Towse@dennyborsboom There’s clearly room for the research community to support diamond OA publications in the work that they do!
That can be in prioritising reviews of articles submitted by others to diamond OA journals when invited, considering submission of one’s own good work to such journals, etc.
And raising the visibility of journals when possible.eg in my area of psychology, a shout out to the magnificent Psychopen …
https://www.psychopen.eu/browse-publications/index.html
That can be in prioritising reviews of articles submitted by others to diamond OA journals when invited, considering submission of one’s own good work to such journals, etc.
And raising the visibility of journals when possible.eg in my area of psychology, a shout out to the magnificent Psychopen …
https://www.psychopen.eu/browse-publications/index.html
PRNE@dennyborsboom be awesome if the reputable ones weren't so expensive to publish in
Adrian
JohnMaybe we could integrate across to provide domain specific tailorings where activitypub and linkedresearch are bridged?
@pdxjohnny Linked Research as @csarven has described it in his Thesis (https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web) already builds on Linked Data Notifications (LDN) so that the bridging would be quite straightforward, see https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#relationship-with-activitypub :
"It is possible for LDN Senders to deliver notifications to AP servers. It is also possible for AP clients to deliver messages to LDN Receivers with some bridging."
jonny
Simon Lucy@dennyborsboom getting rid seems a tall order, do Diamond Open Access Journals get Journal level metrics and their articles metrics and I guess more importantly are the citation graphs including those articles?
Mark Schira@dennyborsboom Not sure I concur. While there sure is a big rise in Mastodon and it has gotten a lot quieter about academic stuff on Twitter.
And about a one week ago it did look like it might flip, at at this time a tweet gets much more (productive!) attention than a toot.
And about a one week ago it did look like it might flip, at at this time a tweet gets much more (productive!) attention than a toot.
Mark Saltveit@dennyborsboom
"Diamond" open access? Not sure what that means.
Diamonds are needlessly expensive and very hard to crack, so it's not that encouraging of a term.
"Diamond" open access? Not sure what that means.
Diamonds are needlessly expensive and very hard to crack, so it's not that encouraging of a term.
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Christie Rowe
thomkennon@dennyborsboom Aaron Swartz woulda loved this moment.
Gilles DePemig@dennyborsboom Journals? Wikis!
Melissa Kline Struhl@dennyborsboom Not sure what your field is, but just in case you're not in a nearby one, the linguists did exactly this! The editorial board walked off of an Elsevier journal (Lingua) en mass to make a new one, Glossa. @glossa
I'm never sure what the OA categories correspond to exactly, but here's their fee structure:
https://www.glossa-journal.org/submissions/
"Authors are only asked to financially contribute if they have access to institutional funding or grants for this purpose."
Nemo_bis 🌈@melissaekline @dennyborsboom See also: Journal declarations of independence, #OpenAccess directory wiki
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence
There is no Dana (he/him)@dennyborsboom
Academic librarian pounds table and yells "hear, hear"
p.s. not sure if people with non-parlimentarian governments will get this reference.
Jason Kuznicki@dennyborsboom Could I just say that I low-key dislike this? Reaching a smaller audience is bad, actually, and context collapse is a much bigger risk now.
James Annan@dennyborsboom been there done that just waiting for everyone else to catch up.
Alex Holcombe@dennyborsboom here's a list: freejournals.org
Allanah@dennyborsboom New Zealand's main research funding body, MBIE, has just intro'd a new 'open access' policy - required from here on for all research they fund.
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/open-access-to-research-policy-introduced/
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/open-access-to-research-policy-introduced/
Open access to research policy introduced | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
As part of creating a future-focused research system the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is introducing an open access to research policy for all new MBIE-funded research. This will mean that researchers will need to make their peer-reviewed research publications available.
Nicola@Allanahinnz @dennyborsboom this is a great policy!
Payal B. Joshi, PhD@dennyborsboom I wish we have mastodon as plugin to share papers across easily too!
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw@dennyborsboom I’ve always advocated for a shift to ArXiv + PubPeer, that way you have open peer review options and the tools to make updates versions of papers!
Dr Lorxus, Truthfinder@dennyborsboom @plektix I mean I'm down tbh, my paper's been in review hell for the last 6 months
RC Hopgood@dennyborsboom How'd you all do it? I'm hoping the same for #writers twitter... 😜
Alexandra ThornWhat does "diamond" mean?
The two things I know about open access journals are that they mean that the readers get free access and that they mean the authors need to pay more to get published.
"Diamond" is not something I've heard of before.
I've seen a lot of scholars on Mastodon sing the praises of OA science, but I haven't seen a lot of discussion of the publication fees that go along with that.
OA publication fees used to be around $1K-$2K a paper, sometimes a bit more, but evidently there have been some rather steep price hikes lately, and one of my colleagues was recently hit with a 9000 Euro publication fee they hadn't been expecting, and now needs to decide whether to switch to a less prestigious journal.
Evidently the other side of the publication fee coin is that there are various strategies for avoiding fees entirely, which places additional financial burden on authors who don't have the opportunity to game the system, or don't have the tools to try to do so.
A mathematician friend once expressed wonder that researchers in the earth and life sciences put up with this kind of thing, because evidently in (their area of?) mathematics, all of the serious publications are in society journals and are solely supported by member dues.
That sounds pleasant. Almost (?) a cooperative model, I think.
How to get there from where my colleagues and I are, I'm not sure.