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… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
[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… Continue Reading
Here’s a nice post on open access philosophy. It includes an open access pledge.… Continue Reading
Informal Logic just switched over to open access. Consequently.org has a post about it here. [HT: Mark and Andrei]I knew it had to be possible for a closed access journal to migrate over to an online open access format, and I even suggested that this would be a way for the discipline to get more… Continue Reading
Here is a tale of journal woe with a happy ending. Now I’m going to reveal the ending. After fifteen years with no luck they sent their paper on the Two-Envelope Problem to an open-access online journal SORITES, and it got published. Don’t be fooled by the eye-irritating 1995 HTML version of the website. SORITES’… Continue Reading