I’m seeing a lot of conferences now that result in edited volumes. This might be an easy way to start a high quality open access publication. Suppose we set up some kind of society (e.g. The Society for Open Access Philosophy) to throw a yearly summer philosophy conference. The process for getting into the conference would ...
I was checking out Ethics Etc today, and I notice a poll they have up. Here’s the question. In deciding whether to recommend acceptance or rejection of a paper for a journal, should one base one’s decision in part on the reputation, editorial policies, etc. of the journal? As of today 187 people have voted. 74% say ...
More and more philosophers are calling for open access philosophy journals, but just like academics can move away from proprietary publishers when it comes to journal articles, I think they can do the same thing when it comes to entire books. ...
There’s a new research foundation called the Northern Institute for Philosophy (NIP) that will be starting up at Aberdeen this September. That by itself is kind of exciting. Then I learned that they have a journal in the works. [HT:Dan Cavedon-Taylor] From the description it looks like it is Analysis-esque. This makes it even more ...
UPDATE: Finished that report I just finished that last referee report that I posted about a few days ago, so that invitation to yell at me is now off the table. However, something funny happened today. I just received another request to referee a paper. So now you may yell at me in two weeks if I ...
I just stumbled upon this over at Taylor and Francis (publisher for Australasian Journal of Philosophy). Their plan is called iOpenAccess. They will make any articles that you publish with them freely available to the public, but… All authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in one of these iOpenAccess journals will have the option to make ...
A while back, I argued that we philosophers ought to shift our practices so that all of our research was published in open access mediums. I then suggested several strategies for what the discipline needed to do. One of the suggestions was that the editorial staff should simple migrate the journal into an open access forum. I ...
[Update: Bad news philosophers. I contacted the company to see what philosophy offerings they might have in 2009 and found out they have none. It turns out they're only a four person operation and are focusing on just Business and Economics right now.] Awesome. I’ve ranted a lot about open source software and open access publishing. ...
I just worked it out so that Sympoze will automatically import each post from the blogs I track in my philosophy blogroll and submit it as a scoop. All readers can now sift through all of the posts in my blog roll via Sympoze. Users can vote the blog posts up and have them promoted ...
Here’s a nice post on open access philosophy. It includes an open access pledge. ...