This doesn't solve your problem, but I have two thoughts that might be
useful: publishing an open-access of your pay-wall papers and pushing
WikiSym to the next level.
*Open access version*
I've recently taken up the practice of re-writing my research papers for
the internet with an open license. For example:
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/summaries/The%20Rise%20and%20Decline/
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that complete re-writes of any
content represent a new creative product. Sadly, this also might cause
confusion about which version of the paper is the "official" version. I've
been including a letter to the reader in my online versions to reduce any
confusion. This approach may solve your immediate need.
*Growing WikiSym into an open conference*
WikiSym is a great venue for research on open collaboration systems.
Publications though this conference are included in ACM's digital library
and are, as you might expect, not open licensed. However, the WikiSym
community has been on the verge of switching away from ACM towards an open
license model for years. Recently WikiSym has also suffered from
stagnation. Although there is a lot of work on open collaboration systems,
most of the best work gets published in other, more general conferences
like CSCW for a variety of reasons (higher attendance, lower acceptance
rate, etc.). I see combining the academic WikiSym with the less-academic
(but equally, if not more awesome) Wikimania and other
conferences/symposiums/communities that are interested in this topic as one
potential way to grow the conference and make it a more enticing
publication venue. Such a transition might require a switch to an open
publication format. I'm very interested in continuing this conversation.
-Aaron
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider(a)pobox.com>wrote;wrote:
Getting First Monday indexed in ISI would be a good
step.
I have helped start an open access journal before [1] so I'd be happy to
give advice. But generally, I don't think that we need more journals.
Rather, let's make open access the journals that we have. This has been
done in some communities. For instance, the high energy physics community
created a coalition to use existing subscription money (and perhaps new
funding) to pay for making journals open access [2]. I would be happy to
help create and solicit library and grant funds for such a coalition, with
a group of interested people. This would start from identifying a core list
of journals.
-Jodi
[1]
http://journal.code4lib.org
[2]
http://www.scoap3.org/index.html
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Samuel Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I've been thinking recently that we should
start this journal. There
isn't an obvious candidate, despite some of the amazing research that's
been done, and the extreme transparency that allows much deeper work to be
done on wiki communities in the future.
Would some of the Wikipapers folks be interested in working on this? I'm
thinking of something like a law-review model where much peer review
happens by young researchers that are more junior (professionally) than the
submitted papers, but very very skilled at review and editorial technique.
Which fits our community as well as it does lawyers.
SJ
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:49 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all;
I like the journals that work under the same (or similar) principles of
free knowledge projects, a.k.a. open-access journals.
I would like to publish some paper regarding to wikis in that kind of OA
publications, do you have any recommendation?
I found First Monday, which is peer-reviewed and OA, but it is not
indexed in ISI. Any more suggestions?
Thanks.
Regards,
emijrp
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