Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Aaron T. Dossey
orting-scene/why-ncaa-athletes-shouldnt- be-paid). Steve From: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu> Reply-To: David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 1:02 PM To: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> S

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Andrew Wright
ica: grants, jobs, news" < > ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of Steve Young <sl...@cornell.edu> > Reply-To: Steve Young <sl...@cornell.edu> > Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 7:57 AM > To: "ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU" <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Malcolm McCallum
etes >>> >>>(http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/why-ncaa-athletes-shouldnt- >>>be-paid). >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> From: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of David Duffy >>> <ddu...@hawaii.ed

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Malcolm McCallum
In regard to publishing, I do not agree with you, I agree with Sir Peter Medawar. Medawar won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Copley Medal. The papers are the end-point of research. IF you have not published it as some form of a communication (e.g. Journals, proceedings, books, govt docs,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Young
.EDU<mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>> Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have! The problem is not whether or not we are being paid. We are paid by our home institutions. The problem is the cost of getting to publications based on research funded

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Ganter, Philip
D.EDU<mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>" <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU<mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>> Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have! And then there is the argument that some just enjoy reviewing papers – pro bono or payment is not something they c

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Young
; Steve >> >> >> From: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> on behalf of David Duffy >> <ddu...@hawaii.edu> >> Reply-To: David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu> >> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 1:02 PM >> To: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Rodney J Dyer
Just two tangential points on this topic that I've been mulling about and bouncing off my local colleagues. 1. First, the papers we produce are not our research, they are but advertisements of our research. We all know very highly cited papers whose underlying quality of data may not match the

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Young
t; Reply-To: David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu<mailto:ddu...@hawaii.edu>> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 1:02 PM To: ECOLOG <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU<mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU>> Subject: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have! http://chronicl

Re: [ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-16 Thread James Farlin
Some journals, such as the open access UC Journal Collabra are doing just that, where a portion of publication fees are set aside for authors and they can either use that money to compensate themselves ($/review done) or donate it to a fund to offset those publication fees for other authors with

[ECOLOG-L] let's go corporate, publishing companies have!

2016-02-16 Thread David Duffy
http://chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Change-Academic/134546?cid=trend_right_h "So why not try this: If academic work is to be commodified and turned into a source of profit for shareholders and for the 1 percent of the publishing world, then we should give up our archaic notions of unpaid craft