<delurk>I agree wholeheartedly with James on the technical recommendation to continue using Drupal and supporting OJS. We have to walk the talk in terms of supporting Open Access/Data/Source. Since modes of scholarly communication are evolving under our noses I also really like the idea of trying something new, like open peer review/soft peer review. I think socially-networked collaborative tools can be exploited to create a record of knowledge and its construction for communities of practice. </delurk> Laura
At 09:47 AM 4/11/2007, James R. Jacobs wrote:
Since code4lib is running drupal, wouldn't it make sense to leverage that platform and use their e-journal module (http://drupal.org/project/ejournal), an outgrowth of open journal system (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs)? BTW, I'm all for a code4lib journal; but in many ways, I see the code4lib site as being the "journal." That is, there's communication going on within the community via IRC, the list, the blog, the conf proceedings (LOVED the conf video because I could not be there in person!) etc. That's traditionally what a journal is for. The only things missing are 1) platform (see first paragraph); 2) ISSN (Code4lib could apply for an ISSN already. see http://fawny.org/issn/?issn) and 3)Jonathan's bullet #1, an editorial board. Let's go for it. Regards, James Jacobs
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