[Discuss] Access to Academic Articles

[Tom Igoe]

Depends on what the purpose of a journal is, IMO.

If the purpose of the journal is academic legitimacy, then you want an
editorial board or jury of academics to review what's written. For anyone
seeking tenure or looking to maintain tenure, the unfortunate reality is
that you need to publish in places your tenure committee recognizes.

If the purpose is commercial legitimacy, then you want major commercial
influences reading and writing for it. Who matters most there?

If the purpose is sharing among this community only, the questions is
simply, what are the standards we hold for news sources we respect and
trust?


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On Saturday, January 4, 2014, Erin RobotGrrl wrote:

> Creating a journal specifically on open hardware would be an excellent way
> to showcase the breadth of the various research areas that involves oshw.
> The interest would not be in one specific field, but in the use and
> application of open hardware.
>
> Regardless of whatever happened long ago, the previously attempted open
> hardware journal was an interesting try at this.
> http://openhardware.org/journal/
>
> With all of the posters presented at OHS, usually if they are academic
> related there is also a paper on the subject as well. An open hardware
> journal would be a good place to publish it.
>
> Plus, the common thread of oshw amongst all the papers could lead to some
> interesting connections between different fields.
>
> --
>
> Unless I misunderstand- what would be the point of OSHWA submitting to
> other journals, if the authours of the papers can do that themselves.
>
> What resources would OSHWA need to be able to start an open access journal?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Emilio Velis <contacto at emiliovelis.com>wrote:
>
> This sounds awesome. I'm on the process of writing some papers about open
> innovation that would fit very well into said journal.
>
>
>
>
> On 3 January 2014 15:01, malcolm stanley <a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hey Alicia, Happy New Year!
>
> There will be lots of journals. We do not suffer from lack of access to
> publishing opportunities: we suffer from lack of access to published
> materials. It would maybe be greater value to provide journal access
> somehow as part of membership. I don't know if that fits within the
> educational mandate, but it sure would be helpful....
>
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> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:10 PM, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for posting this thread. It is indeed frustrating that research
> (including publicly funded research) is so hard to access.
> There's the Open Research Network soon to be publishing journals:
> http://www.openresearchnetwork.org/
>
> A few of us at OSHWA have been wondering if OSHWA should attempt to create
> an open access journal on open hardware, or if our time would be better
> spent submitting to one of the other open access journals. Would love to
> hear the community's thoughts on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Alicia
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:30 PM, malcolm stanley <
> a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Harris, thanks for that... I'm still in discovery phase and gathering
> citations, so I don't have a good list I could give you... and  that is
> part of the challenge, right, that research is an iterative process until
> you understand its boundary with development?
>
> but good feedback, thanks!
>
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>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Harris Kyriakou <ckyriako at stevens.edu>wrote:
>
> Another idea is to search at the websites of the authors. Many of them
> unofficially share their published papers.
> As a more temporary solutio
>
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> robotgrrl.com
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Tom Igoe
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