Good point, Ethan! Much better made than in my email.
Digital Classicist members regularly write short descriptions of
projects and digital resources for the DC wiki. Finding people to write
fuller, academic reviews of online resources oughtn't be too hard.
G
On 2015-08-05 17:03, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> I've been on this list for a few years and have never seen a call for
> volunteers to review digital resources. I am sure there are a number of
> us here who volunteer to peer review open access journal articles on
> merely the principle of supporting OA. If the old guard of the classics
> community will only review a book so that they can get a material thing
> out of it, then the discipline is in a pretty sorry state.
>
> What I mean to say is, perhaps you are soliciting reviews for web
> resources from the wrong crowd.
>
> Ethan
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> All of us.
>
> By this I mean a distinct thing: the economics of pre-OA publishing
> make books $$-valuable. So if the publisher generously spreads a few
> free copies around to journals and we in turn offer them to reviewers,
> reviewers are glad to get the books and happy to write the review in
> return. We get the review quid for the publisher's quo. That's an
> economic transaction deeply embedded in the "commercial" model of
> things. We *all* benefit from that because we all get to read the
> book reviews, and a certain number of us get nice free books.
>
> At BMCR, we have repeatedly experimented with getting reviews for
> "non-commercial" resources, chiefly sophisticated web resources
> available for free on the open net. The take-up by would-be reviewers
> is statistically indistinguishable from zero. So nobody gets a "free
> book" and nobody at all gets to read a review of that resource.
>
> My point is only that the social embeddedness of the current system is
> intricate and has many benefits as well as many costs.
>
> jo'd
>
>
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