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There are academic journals that are open access. You can find a list at - http://www.doaj.org/ Regards, Morgan Leigh PhD Candidate School of Sociology and Social Work University of Tasmania On 9/11/2011 9:31 PM, Caroline Tully wrote: > Hi Morgan, > >>> Or do you want your work to be as widely available as possible?<< > > Erm... yes.... but also I want the glory of academic journal publishing. I > guess it depends...depends on what I'm trying to achieve. If it is spread my > work around... yes (when it's finished), but that wouldn't necessarily mean > completely free to all and sundry... I don't know...thinking about lazy > students plagiarizing... but then again they can do that from a paper book > too... > > OK, my official response to that is that I need to think some more about it. > > ~Caroline. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Morgan Leigh > Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2011 6:05 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] New issue Metaverse Creativity > > Greetings Caroline, > Most journals do ask for the copyright. And they don't pay you for your > article. And they often want you to ask their permission for any use you > might have for your own work. And then they charge universities a LOT of > money for access to the journals that we as academics have written. > Confused? You should be. I argue that this kind of academic publishing > is a special type of vanity publishing. In fact, in the sciences, you > often have to pay a not insignificant amount of money to get your > article published AND give the publisher the rights. Why do academics, > who are otherwise clever people, fall for this kind of scam you ask? > Well it's because of the way eligibility for tenured positions is > decided. If you get published in an A rated journal you get x points > towards tenure. B rated journal x% something, and so on. And who decides > which of these journals should be rated what I hear you asking. I'll > leave that for you to guess... > > Then there is open access. Mostly, except for a few scammers, I mean, > journals that don't get open access, the author retains the copyright > and the article is available for free on the web for everyone to see. I > can confidently say that this is the way of the future. DRM does not work. > > Think of it this way, do you want to sign the rights for your work to > someone whose business model is to restrict access to your work so they > can induce artificial scarcity so they can get paid (of which payment > you get nothing) by the university that you work for and who paid you to > do research in the first place? Or do you want your work to be as widely > available as possible? > > > Regards, > > Morgan Leigh > PhD Candidate > School of Sociology and Social Work > University of Tasmania > > > On 8/11/2011 2:47 PM, Caroline Tully wrote: >> I see.... >> >> Is this different to other journals? I've only had one peer reviewer > journal >> article and frankly, I wouldn't have a clue about copyright of it (I mean > I >> probably did initially read something regarding it but have now forgotten >> it). >> >> ~Caroline. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Morgan Leigh >> Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011 2:18 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] New issue Metaverse Creativity >> >> Thanks for thinking of us Caroline. Sadly; >> >> "Who owns the copyright of journal articles? >> Copyrights of articles remain with Intellect in our journals. We then >> have agreements with other companies (such as EBSCO Host) to license >> them to carry our material in their products and pay us a fee. Without >> us holding the copyright to all the material in our journals, our >> business model does not work." >> >> Regards, >> >> Morgan Leigh >> PhD Candidate >> School of Sociology and Social Work >> University of Tasmania >> >> >> On 7/11/2011 9:02 PM, Caroline Tully wrote: >>> I know some people on this list are into Second Life. >>> >>> >>> >>> *Subject:*New issue Metaverse Creativity >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Metaverse banner >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=b8siyjbab&et=1108351050788&s=4767&e=001DpldgL >> > 0W1WZBlHuOD_DHwqBvIb_PePmHhiK1Ux0VrfuM7iX5ns3H51OSlq0ltApSCxqU5y6LdxlLwxlpqO >> > jieCv7-KuNZ1vVKS84raa4HUm_NAo7l6LHeJzZhMbiiVdqhrhN3JvY5C1L9pT0mQnKrAmLpCqSKB >> 2lBGqTQ6i5rj0=>Metaverse >>> cover >>> >> > <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=b8siyjbab&et=1108351050788&s=4767&e=001DpldgL >> > 0W1WZBlHuOD_DHwqBvIb_PePmHhiK1Ux0VrfuM7iX5ns3H51OSlq0ltApSCxqU5y6LdxlLwxlpqO >> > jieCv7-KuNZ1vVKS84raa4HUm_NAo7l6LHeJzZhMbiiVdqhrhN3JvY5C1L9pT0mQnKrAmLpCqSKB >> > 2lBGqTQ6i5rj0=><http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=b8siyjbab&et=1108351050788&s=4 >> > 767&e=001DpldgL0W1WZBlHuOD_DHwqBvIb_PePmHhiK1Ux0VrfuM7iX5ns3H51OSlq0ltApSCxq >> > U5y6LdxlLwxlpqOjieCv7-KuNZ1vVKS84raa4HUm_NAo7l6LHeJzZhMbiiVdqhrhN3JvY5C1L9pT >> 0mQnKrAmLpCqSKB2lBGqTQ6i5rj0=> >>> >>> *Metaverse Creativity** ** * >>> >>> * *** >>> >>> *Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the second issue >>> of Metaverse Creativity (1.2)* >>> >>> /Metaverse Creativity/is committed to an examination of creativity in >>> the user defined online virtual worlds known as the metaverse. 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