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

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.html Dec.
> 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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