Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
Tobias, thanks for your message, which describes well the labor that goes into open access journals. I tend to agree with your main points, and your description of the labor that goes into publishing open access, online journals offers an effective education on what is involved in devoting oneself

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr.
Well, Mike, editing a journal like Feminist Media Studies for Informa/Taylor and Francis comes with the benefit of being enrolled, whether you like it or not, as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), where T&F is a big player. COPE (nice acronym) "is a forum for editors and publis

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread . left | coast | lurker .
I also wanted to briefly pipe in -- I am Managing Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, an open-access, indexed, and fully peer-reviewed Journal, run through that innovative yet bulky beast of a CMS, OJS. We're located at: http://dj.dancecult.net It would appear to m

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread Gary Hall
Brian, Thanks. No, it's not a glitch. Digitize This Book! was originally written and published as a print-on-paper (and not open access) text: partly as a way of drawing attention to some of the politico-institutional issues and difficulties the book is attempting to engage with around open a

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread Christian Fuchs
Am 7/27/11 12:38 PM, schrieb Gary Hall: I'm not mentioning this as way of criticizing anyone's strategic/tactical, political or ethical decisions - I merely want to point out that these *are* decisions that we all make. For example, I know some academics have taken the decision to stop giving th

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread Graham St John
>My question is, given the above, why is anyone still working for/publishing >in/editing/reading/using or otherwise supporting the current more or less >obscene system of academic for profit publishing? > >Mike Good question - at least as far as publishing in journals is concerned. I like where t

Felicity Lawrence: A mere state can't restrain a corporation like Murdoch's (The Guardian)

2011-07-28 Thread Patrice Riemens
original to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/28/murdoch-news-corp-banks-transnationals A mere state can't restrain a corporation like Murdoch's Whether News Corp, banks or food giants, transnationals are not so much a state within a state as a power beyond it The deep corruptio

INDIA: Critical Success Factors for Rural ICT Projects in India

2011-07-28 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Critical Success Factors for Rural ICT Projects in India: A study of n-Logue kiosk projects at Pabal and Baramati Project Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management By Vivek Dhawan ABSTRACT In the past few years, the power of Internet as a commu

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread Florian Cramer
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:04 AM, McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. wrote: > It does make me feel that I was correct in announcing that I'm stepping down > from editing Feminist Media Studies at our last editorial board meeting. I > always will defend the quality, importance, and the ethics of the journal

Re: some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using

2011-07-28 Thread michael gurstein
I'm the Editor in Chief of the online open access open archive (all volunteer) Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net. We were born digital (7 years ago) and the PKP/OJS Open Journal Software support system.. We are now (for the P&T folks) being indexed by IBSS (and of course Googl