Re: A proposal for a decentralized, peer-reviewed academic journal system for the Web

I just downloaded most of the payswarm documentation. I'm ready to get
reading :).

Steven's story suggests that greatness comes from passionately pursuing
something. I think we would all be better off if this was possible for more
people.

-Brent

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Brent Shambaugh
<brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>wrote:

> Reference 13 refers to the Berlin Open Access Conference <
> http://berlin10.org/about.html>.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Brent Shambaugh <
> brent.shambaugh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Manu Sporny,
>>
>> Here is my take. I believe that creating a decentralized, peer-reviewed
>> academic journal system could be a good idea, but only if access is
>> carefully thought out.
>> It could be a boon to citizen scientists and the developing world since
>> they generally prefer open access, but doing so would require low cost. I
>> believe that a system
>> should allow payment now or later and donations now and later. Payment
>> could occur after a certain period of time, or after a certain event such
>> as revenue from
>> a project.
>>
>> Only designing for payment could be a tricky thing. A situation as
>> described in Richard A. Stallman's right to read <1> could evolve. Access
>> to literature
>> could become even more limited than it is today. Some, such as Eben
>> Moglen, seem to favor support from those with the ability <2>. However,
>> regardless
>> what happens I believe people would try to subvert it. Sometimes the
>> results could be hard to interpret <3>. I do believe that people who have
>> the
>> ability would want to help out, maybe even more so if they are given the
>> freedom to choose.
>>
>> I'm not certain if people will use it. I know the economy is in a slump
>> <4>, public universities are financially challenged <5>, highly educated
>> people are unemployed <6>, women
>> are increasingly getting PhDs <7> but are facing challenges <8> <9>, and
>> young academics <10> <11>, biohackers <12>, and those in the developing
>> world are looking for solutions <13>.
>> Some say that collaboration online is creating a new economic form <14>
>> and may replace institutions <15>. Innovation may largely also come from
>> the outside, in the case of manufacturers <16>.
>> Similar technologies have been around for awhile though <17>, and
>> innovation may be a geographic thing <18>. The web seems to be widely
>> adopted, why?
>>
>> For me personally, access to journal articles and books has helped a lot.
>> I had a bit of an obsession for almost everything in graduate school, and I
>> felt I had a clear advantage over those who were less privileged. Learning
>> about practically anything I was interested in, and comparing various
>> resources was amazing. How much are books and countless journal articles
>> worth anyway?
>>
>> -Brent
>>
>>
>> <1> Richard M. Stallman, The Right to Read.
>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read
>> <2> Eben Moglen on Facebook, Google and Government Surveillance
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCczbSF-B8 Jun. 1, 2012
>> <3> Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales.
>> http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-cd-sales-071103/ Nov. 3, 2007
>> <4> Stoller, Matt. Modern American Economic History in a Few Charts.
>> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/modern-american-economic-history-in-a-few-charts.html,
>> Oct. 13, 2012
>> <5> Public Universities In Peril.
>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i27/Public-Universities-Peril.html, Jul.
>> 12, 2012
>> <6> Barely Hanging On.
>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i45/Barely-Hanging.html Nov. 5, 2012
>> <7> For the first time, more women than men earn PhD.
>> http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-09-15-womenphd14_st_N.htmSept. 14, 2010
>> <8> Women Dropping Out of Science Careers.
>> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5227334&page=1 June 24, 2008
>> <9> Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, but Only if They're Male.
>>
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/being-married-helps-professors-get-ahead-but-only-if-theyre-male/267289/Jan. 17, 2013
>> <10> Young Researchers in Europe Launch Lobby Group.
>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/12/Young-Researchers-Europe-Launch-Lobby.htmlDec. 27, 2012
>> <11> Ethan Perlstien.
>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i49/Ethan-Perlstein.html Dec. 3, 2012
>> <12> A Biopunk Manifesto - Meridith Patterson.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thn7d7-jywU Jan. 10, 2011
>> <13> Scaling Up Science in South Africa.
>> http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i51/Scaling-Science-South-Africa.htmlDec. 17. 2012
>> <14> Howard Rhiengold: Way-new collaboration.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5s3Z0iesRM Feb. 12. 2008
>> <15> Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw Jul. 14, 2008
>> <16> Eric Von Hippel. Democratizing Innovation.
>> http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm 2005
>> <17> Parsaye, Kamran. Intelligent Databases: Object-Oriented, Deductive
>> Hypermedia Technologies, Wiley, New York, 1989
>> <18> How the Crash Will Reshape America.
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/03/how-the-crash-will-reshape-america/307293/6/Mar. 2009
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/14/2013 03:58 PM, Steven Rowat wrote:
>>> > If, as you say Manu, PaySwarm already has this available in its core
>>> >  architecture, then I think the time is right to start it.
>>>
>>> More food for thought:
>>>
>>> Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing
>>>
>>> http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publishers-out-of-publishing-1.12243
>>>
>>> I've sent an e-mail to Jean-Pierre Demailly, just to reach out and offer
>>> our help.
>>>
>>> -- manu
>>>
>>> --
>>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>>> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>>> blog: Aaron Swartz, PaySwarm, and Academic Journals
>>> http://manu.sporny.org/2013/payswarm-journals/
>>>
>>>
>>
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