Open Access publishing of Semantic Web research

Hi everyone,

Inspired by discussions at the ISWC Townhall, and previously at the JWS 
plenary call, I published a blog post here discussing the issues of Open 
Access publishing in the context of Semantic Web research:

https://aidanhogan.com/blog/index.php/2022/10/27/publishing-research-semantic-web/

Also adding in CC members of the SWSA task force set to look into this 
issue; as well as Uli and Claudia with whom we discussed this issue for 
ISWC 2022; Pascal and Krzysztof as EiC's of SWJ; as well as Jim, 
Zhixiong and Ying as EiCs of Data Intelligence. (Apologies; I know some 
of you are already on the list.)

The post covers the context of the OA issue, why there is a push to move 
away from publishers like Elsevier (in particular) and Springer, 
different types of OA, advantages and disadvantages of different types 
of OA, precedents for conferences and journals in CS that have moved to 
(zero-fee) Diamond OA and (inexpensive) Gold OA, general issues relating 
to the conference vs. journal paradigm in CS, precedents of CS 
conferences that have moved partially towards a journal model, and a 
concrete proposal for how publishing research on the Semantic Web could 
potentially look in future (as some food for thought).

I hope you might find the post interesting! And hopefully it's not too 
long (I wanted to cover the issue in a self-contained and fairly 
complete way for those also maybe new to the topic).

Comments welcome!

Best,
Aidan

Received on Wednesday, 2 November 2022 04:16:53 UTC