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Dear Simon and other list members This post serves as something of an introduction. I am the Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture which is in 2019, despite the constant struggle of financing our operational costs, in its tenth year of publishing. I have been lurkingly intrigued by the talent and exchanges on this list, which is a wonderful source of information. I took some interest in your post Simon as we at Dancecult are looking at ways to increase our indexing profile without compromising our status as a journal independent from the corporate exploitation of public (and private) funded research, as represented for example by Elsevier. For example, there is the matter of OA journals being indexed and evaluated with SCOPUS. I just wonder what your thoughts (and those of others here) are about the perceived advantages and disadvantages of indexing with SCOPUS. Does the quest for prestige not represent a compromising relationship for genuinely OA journals? Apologies if this matter has been discussed here before. Cheers Graham Graham St John Executive Editor Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture - https://dj.dancecult.net Dancecult Research Network - Update profile and references at: https://dancecult-research.net/people https://dancecult-research.net/references On 25.01.19 11:00, RADICALOPENACCESS automatic digest system wrote: > There is 1 message totaling 306 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. talk Edinburgh 24th JAn > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the RADICALOPENACCESS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RADICALOPENACCESS&A=1 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:38:18 +0000 > From: Simon Batterbury <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: talk Edinburgh 24th JAn > > just in case we only get about 5 people turning up…. > > ‘Socially just’ publishing by and for geographers: what can we do? > Prof Simon Batterbury, Lancaster University > > The Pod, ECCI (Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh Univ.), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, 3.30pm, Thursday, January 24, 2019 . RIGLE seminar. > > > Questions of social and environmental justice pervade contemporary geographical research, but are rarely applied to the dissemination of geographical knowledge - where the major journals are almost all with profit-hungry corporations like Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor-Francis, Springer and Sage, some of whom make high profits while charging readers or authors in a market that is increasingly monopolistic and uncompetitive. They are not the only players, but I present some data on the state of publishing, and make three appeals for change. 1) we need to be aware of the political economy of knowledge production in the discipline – ironically, its economic and political geography 2) academics can take back control of publishing from an increasingly high profit commercial publishing industry, by developing their existing skills, tools and networks 3) for this to happen, hiring, promotion and workloads in the discipline need to fully acknowledge and reward socially just publishing. This starts ‘at the top’. I refer to my own experience as editor of the ‘Journal of Political Ecology’, an entirely free, and indexed, OA journal and through participation in various academic publishing networks. > Background reading: https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66910 Counter-mapping of free or cheap OA journals in geography and social sciences http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp > [https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg]<http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp> > > List of OA journals in geography, political ecology, anthropology, planning, area studies, and various social sciences<http://tinyurl.com/ze9b4zp> > tinyurl.com > Open access journals in social science, political ecology, urban studies, anthropology and geography that are free or with reasonable fees. Continue reading → > > > Socially just publishing: implications for geographers and their journals | Fennia - International Journal of Geography<https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/66910> > fennia.journal.fi > FENNIA is a non-profit peer-review open access journal published by the Geographical Society of Finland since 1889. It is an international scientific publication dedicated to all fields of geography with attentiveness to northern dimensions. > > > > Simon Batterbury (PhD Clark) is the inaugural Chair of Political Ecology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for 14 years. He works on agrarian change, livelihoods and development in West Africa, Timor Leste and the South Pacific and on radical bicycle politics. He has edited the Journal of Political Ecology since 2003. > > > Prof. Simon <http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/simon-batterbury> Batterbury<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/simon-batterbury> | Chair of Political Ecology | B504, Lancaster Environment Centre | Lancaster University | LA1 4YQ | UK, Europe. 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