Sympoze Update: Blogroll Integrated

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 [...]

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Open Access Philosophy

Here’s a nice post on open access philosophy. It includes an open access pledge.

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Journal Mashups!!!

Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups! Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on [...]

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Informal Logic Goes Open Access

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 [...]

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Kudos to Eric Schwitzgebel and Josh Dever

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’ [...]

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Fix Peer Review Problems with Open Access Journals

Couldn’t a widely read Open Access Journal pay its referees for timely reports with advertising revenues? (Yes, I’m back to thinking about this issue again.) Imagine you’re an editor and you manage to get your open access journal into the top tier. Suppose you get 500 submissions a year that you deem are worth having [...]

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Put Your Findings Online - No Publication for You!

A reputable physics journal withdrew an offer to publish an article because the scientists posted some of their findings online. This is yet another reason to push open-access.

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Discussions About Open Access Journals in the Blogosphere.

I’ve been ranting about Open Access Journals - Here and Here. I just found out about a discussion on Leiter’s Blog from a couple of years ago called “Time For An End to For Profit Journals,” - [HT: Philosophy, et cetera] Also, there are three recent posts out there in the blogosphere on this issue. [...]

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Speaking of Analysis…

…the April 2008 edition of Analysis just posted to my RSS feed. Here’s the Blackwell Link. Here’s the Link for those of you with Ingenta Connect. This edition looks like it is simply loaded with good stuff. Also, I just noticed that the January 2008 edition of Analysis is available for FREE at Blackwell.

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How to Move to Open Access Journals

In a previous post, I argued that philosophy should push toward publishing in Open Access Journals. Here’s a list of things I think we need to start doing to realize that shift. Some of these will seem quite obvious, but we might as well have the list anyway. 1. Everyone Start Submitting to Open Access [...]

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