Maybe I'm missing something here, but how about academics publishing via their own website. Website domains aren't expensive to set up, or run per year, I use UK2, with ample space for articles, complete with colour graphics, dancing bears, whatever. Nor do you need very much IT expertise, beyond creating a Word doc and then saving as Webpage, and downloading a ftp programme (I use Filezilla, free, and easy to use).

OK there might be so much stuff put out there that it becomes hard to find what you really want - isn't that an issue with the WEeb anyway, you just ned to be canny with your search criteria. Inserting the term 'university' into your searchn string often narrows the results towards academic publications. Maybe we could use a standardised web format like [log in to unmask] or something like that. Perhaps universities could host the individual academic's websites, although that might raise issues of intel;ectual ownership to the published material, especially if the academic moves to a new post at a different institution.

For a little more money the academic could subsrcibe to a web traffic monitoring service that will tell them who read what article, where in the world etc etc.

There's also independent web traffic monotiring sites, like Webuka, that anyone can access and that give the toital traffic to a site - although the figures I get from Webuka and from my UK2 traffic monitor (Clicky) are somewhat different, not sure why.

Then research becomes free to access, the stuff that's most cited, hopefully the 'best', will tend to rise to the top of the search engines, and the only losers will be the journals that charge squidillions to both universities and individual subscribers, and hide the stuff away where you can only acess the abstract unless you have $100 per article to spend.

What am I missing here?

Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
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From: Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) (Jeroen) <[log in to unmask]>
To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:39
Subject: Re: New open access journals: Geo - Geography and Environment

Dear Gail,
 
Thanks for this and good to hear Geo is gaining momentum.  It is certainly a valuable addition to the landscape. I will add this to the list of optional OA publication venues when advising authors, despite the rather high APC.
 
But maybe there is still opportunity to go a little bit further. Below I have checked how Geo scores on the “wish list” posted on crit-geog. I hope Wiley will make further steps.
 
V - fully Open Access
V - APC waivers for those who apply (e.g. from LMI countries)
V - online only
V - indexing at least by Google Scholar and DOAJ, at a later stage also Scopus, Web of Science and others (I expect that is in the works)
V - making it easy to link to additional material (data, video, code etc.) shared via external platforms like Zenodo or Figshare
V - using DOI
 
(choice) - CC-BY license
? - in principle no size restrictions
? - no IF advertising
? - open for text mining
? - using e.g. LOCKSS or Portico for digital preservation
 
X - maximum APC of 500 USD (or perhaps a lifetime membership model like that at PeerJ) (Geo APC at Wiley currently at USD 1440)
X - authors retain copyright
X - no issues: continuous publishing
X - peer review along PLOS One idea: only check for (methodological) soundness (and whether it is no obvious garbage or plagiarism), avoiding costly system of multiple cascading submissions/rejections
X - peer review reports themselves are citable and have DOIs
X - post pub open non anonymous peer review, so the community decides what is the worth of published papers
X - providing a suite of article level metrics
X - really international profile of editors/board
X - making (small) updates to articles possible (i.e. creating an updated version)
X - using ORCID
X - optionally a pre-print archive (but could rely on SSRN as well)
 
Best,
Jeroen
 
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Davies, Gail
Sent: donderdag 2 april 2015 11:23
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Subject: New open access journals: Geo - Geography and Environment
 
Dear Critters, Tim and Jeroen
 
Congratulations on the new Geohumanities journal and thanks for the follow up Jeroen. This is in part a response to the conversation, and in part simply promotion.
 
The Royal Geographical Society has recently launched a new Journal, Geo – Geography and Environment, in association with Wiley. The journal is publishing four kinds of original peer reviewed articles: research articles, review papers, commentaries and data and digital humanities papers.  The journal encompasses the full discipline of human and physical geography, and aims to support data sharing, open science, interdisciplinary research and interactive forms of knowledge production. You can read more about the journal in the opening editorial written by editors Gail Davies (University of Exeter) and Anson Mackay (UCL).  We have just published our first commentary, by Sabina Leonelli, Daniel Spichtinger and Barbara Prainsack, which is on open science.
 
In response to Jeroen’s thoughts: Geo is fully open access, with high quality peer review. We hope the APC is reasonable – there is an RGS blog post on accessing funds for these here, details for Wiley institutional account holders here, and info on their philanthropic programme for global south authors here. Authors can choose their Creative Commons Attribution License and so shape the reproducibility of their work. As a new production line, it’s been slower than we’d like, but we’ve been told the teething issues are now resolved and we are aiming for fast.
 
Data sharing is central to what we are hoping to do, but we also recognise this requires changes beyond journals. We have a blog post in response to our first article which suggests universities have a key role to play here.  We’d like to encourage the research community to come to us with their proposals for data articles, as well as critical and creative responses to the changing landscapes of knowledge production and circulation that could follow from open access. We think geographers should both be leading and tracing these.  
 
But, we’ve not gone done the route of open and post pub peer review. We felt open access, interdisciplinarity and data articles raised new issues to keep us busy in the opening stages. Do let us know if we could do more to innovate in this direction. As editors we are really open to ideas on how best to make open access work for the geographical community.
 
We are of course also open to your proposals for articles. The full papers for our first issue will follow online shortly and we look forward to your ideas and submissions for future ones.
 
With best wishes
Gail
 
 
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