Not sure if this is of any interest to anyone, but a new independent academic journal www.thescholaronline.com based in the UK is looking for peer reviewers. Attached is the PDF document that has been sent out
Regards
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Bruce D'Arcus [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 January 2012 21:28
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Subject: Re: Elsevier -etc.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> What you can *do* as a scholar:
> - refuse to do unpaid labour for Elsevier as long as the profits of their science division are above 10% and as long as they support acts to hinder Open Access
> - refuse to give away your copyright, for a how-to see: http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/authors/
> - submit your articles to pubhlishers with a liberal self archiving policy (see the Sherpa-Romeo listing at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
> - help creating assessment systems that are not soleley based on numbers of articles in certain journals
> - write less (traditional style) articles (but read more :-))
> - help creating discipline wide international preprint servers and working paper hosts, i.e. develop a publication culture more akin to that in economics or physics
> - devote a set amount of time to free information services, e.g. work on further improving wikipedia articles for 2 hours or so each month.
> - ask your library for help if you have doubt about a certain publisher or journal
These are all good suggestions. There's also this fairly practical
open access pledge, which someone just reminded me of:
<http://www.openaccesspledge.com/>
Bruce
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