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Hi There is very good example of open access journal outside anglophone world. In Brazil, and now also in Portugal, the majority of social sciences journals are in open access. hughs paulo 2011/8/31 Berg, Lawrence <[log in to unmask]> > ACME: an international e-journal for critical geographies is the leading > open-access journal in human geography. It has been publishing for a decade > now. Cheers, > > Lawrence D Berg, DPhil > UBC Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice > Via iPhone > > > On 2011-08-31, at 12:44, Linda Estelí Méndez < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am in the water sector and a group of visionaries academics created the > journal of *Water Alternatives* where a bunch of professors, researchers > and aspiring scientists like me haha, can publish their work and it is open > for FREE to all the public. I dunno know if geography has this alternative? > Would not know as I mostly read articles on my area, but I bring it up as an > example we can all follow in all fields: Start creating journals with our > own people and submit our work to them... it is a way to start the > revolution! > > So here is the petition: To all the professors in the world, in all areas, > please start funding your own journals and let's create a mass of > alternatives that can end the concentration of science in a few, in the West > and for those who can only pay or have access.... > > Kind Regards to everyone! > > ---- > Linda Estelí Méndez > Water Management in Rural Development > Wageningen Universiteit > Montpellier SupAgro > AGRIS MUNDUS Alumni > > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaestelimendez> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaestelimendez > <http://www.agrismundus.eu/agris-mundus/> > http://www.agrismundus.eu/agris-mundus/ > <http://www.iwe.wur.nl/UK/>http://www.iwe.wur.nl/UK/ > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Cloke <<[log in to unmask]> > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Isn't that called 'pleading the Obama'? Like 'pleading the fifth'? >> >> >> >> Dr Jon Cloke >> Lecturer/Research Associate >> Geography Department >> Loughborough University >> Loughborough LE11 3TU >> >> Office: 01509 228193 >> Mob: 07984 813681 >> ________________________________________ >> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [<[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Aaron Franks [<[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]] >> Sent: 30 August 2011 16:09 >> To: <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: Academic journals >> >> Any pragmatic 'early career/emerging scholar' cowards (like me) up for a >> creeping and inadequate reformism? >> >> Aaron >> >> On 30 August 2011 15:53, Tina Richardson < <[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]<mailto: <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]>> >> wrote: >> Yes, I'm up for a revolution (re: academic journals). In the meantime you >> may find this Leeds-based group interesting: >> >> <http://reimaginetheuniversity.wordpress.com/> >> http://reimaginetheuniversity.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> Tina >> >> _______________ >> Tina Richardson >> PhD Researcher: Cultural Studies >> School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies >> University of Leeds >> blog: <http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> www.particulations.blogspot.com< <http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> collaboration: <http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com<<http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> www.twitter.com/concretepost< <http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> >> >> >> Quoting Dara Blumenthal < <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]<mailto:<[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]>>: >> >> I'm entering the final stage of my PhD and am less and less enthralled >> with playing the conventional publishing game. Is anyone else >> interested in a revolt? >> >> db >> ----------------------- >> Dara Blumenthal >> PhD Candidate, Sociology of the Body >> University of Kent, Canterbury >> <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]<mailto: <[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]> >> <http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/research/areas/body.html> >> http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/research/areas/body.html >> <http://kent.academia.edu/DaraBlumenthal> >> http://kent.academia.edu/DaraBlumenthal >> >> On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Tina Richardson wrote: >> >> Interesting article. >> >> Yes, often the editors/co-editors of these journals are PhD students >> who are paid a nominal fee (well below minimum wage) to do all the >> work. They feel obliged to do it 'for nothing' because everyone else >> does, and they need it on their CV. >> >> Tina >> >> _______________ >> Tina Richardson >> PhD Researcher: Cultural Studies >> School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies >> University of Leeds >> blog: <http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> www.particulations.blogspot.com< <http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> http://www.particulations.blogspot.com> >> collaboration: <http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com<<http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> http://www.arcadespromenades.wordpress.com> >> twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> www.twitter.com/concretepost< <http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> http://www.twitter.com/concretepost> >> >> >> Quoting Stephen Hall < <[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]<mailto: <[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]>>: >> >> Dear All >> >> For those of us not in London this week and for those >> serruptitiously reading crit geog forum on iphones (other >> smartphones are available) whilst in sessions (which I cannot >> condone) here is an interesting take on academic journals from >> George Monbiot. >> >> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist >> >> Stephen Hall >> Department of Geography, University of Hull, HULL HU6 7RX >> Telephone: 07581186208 (mobile); +44 (0)1482 465385<tel:%2B44%20%280%291482%20465385> >> (Departmental Office) >> Email: <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]<mailto:<[log in to unmask]> >> [log in to unmask]> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of >> Jonathan Cloke >> Sent: Mon 29/08/2011 11:53 >> To: <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] >> <mailto: <[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Re: maps creating reality >> >> >> >> This all depends on how you understand 'map', surely, and how the >> particular map in question is performed? Gregory et al in the 2009 >> Dictionary of Human Geography describe a map as "a representation of >> all or a portion of the planet or some other vast environment", >> offering further detail through examples such as Harley and Woodward >> (1987, p. xvi) - 'graphic representations that facilitate a spatial >> understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes or events >> in the human world'. The most important parts of these >> interpretations are surely a) that a map is a representation and b) >> not all maps are graphic. >> >> If you check out the recent CFP on this list regarding ANT, for >> instance, it quotes Alcadipani and Hassard (2010, p. 4/5) on "how >> 'ordering effects' ... are performed into being". The third >> important component following on from a) and b) above is c) that a >> map is a representation that performs ordering effects into being >> and so axiomatically it alters reality - all maps alter reality by >> the ordering effect of being maps. >> >> You can carry the ANT analysis further in looking at how the >> performativity of maps "describes the process of establishing >> relations between heterogeneous materials of humans and non-humans", >> and is also relevant to the durability of the map and its >> necessarily temporary nature - the imperial map of an African >> country brought into being some hard and fast socio-cultural and >> politico-economic effects that substantially changed the reality of >> an area they performed a description of. As soon as the imperial >> moment that drove their creation had passed, however, other maps >> took over which performed to a change reality. >> >> Just as a last thought, I was reading the series of pieces on Steve >> Jobs and Apple that came out this week as a result of his >> resignation. When Jobs and others brought out the Apple II series in >> the late 1970s, surely what they did (among other things) was to >> create a non-graphic map that permanently altered reality? A >> PC/laptop/ipad is surely a supreme example of a non-graphic >> mechanism that 'represents a vast environment', 'facilitates a >> spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes or >> events in the human world'? >> >> Jon >> >> Dr Jon Cloke >> Lecturer/Research Associate >> Geography Department >> Loughborough University >> Loughborough LE11 3TU >> >> Office: 01509 228193 >> Mob: 07984 813681 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aaron Franks >> School of Geographical and Earth Sciences >> University of Glasgow >> PhD student homepage<<http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/postgraduates/afranks> >> http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk:443/postgraduates/afranks> >> > > > > -- *Paulo Jorge Vieira Website:**http://www.paulojorgevieira.wordpress.com*<http://www.paulojorgevieira.wordpress.com/> * Blog: **www.5dias.net* <http://www.5dias.net/>* **00351 914477147* * * *colectivo manifesto urbano * *http://manifesturbano.wordpress.com/ * *Investigador / Researcher * ***http://www.ceg.ul.pt/investigadores.asp?id=141* *NETURB - Núcleo de Estudos Urbanos* *Centro de Estudos Geográficos * *IGOT - Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território* *www.igot.ul.pt* ***Universidade de Lisboa/University of Lisbon * * não te prives – Grupo de Defesa dos Direitos Sexuais Presidente da Mesa da Assembleia Geral **www.naoteprives.org* Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pjovieira Academia.Edu: http://lisboa.academia.edu/PauloJorgeVieira