The exploitative character of academic publishing in a single cartoon.
#publishing #universities #research #academics
h/t Alexandra Kupferberg/LinkedIn
original illustration: Thailand by Tawan Chuntra.
https://www.irancartoon.com/site/artists/tawan-chuntra#&gid=1&pid=30 #TawanChuntra #Thailand
It feels like peer review and academic publication is crying out for a distributed, protocol driven, peer review, accreditation and publishing work flow with supporting technology. This seems eminently deliverable, but there are of so many vested interests in keeping all of this stymied and closed and raking in the dollars.
There's little opportunity for lock in platform capture and monitisation (for any useful solution, I think).
It's the opposite of a VC target: a commons?
Indeed, I spent some time with colleagues working on an open access, peer controlled reviewed on-line academic journal a decade ago, but the problem we ended up with was the time allocation (unpaid) that it would require - we thought about grant funding for it (or at least to seed it) but could find no appropriate interested funder (although nowadays that might be different).
yes indeed, just like that.
what you describe sounds like a great activity. if only could have gone somewhere amazing.
i almost wonder if every research ethical department would donate to development, reliability maintenance & support for such an undertaking.
i dream of such a world
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
bearsong