Every time I see any story about how fucked scholarly communication is my first reaction is a) yall know you can just make your own websites right, b) yall know you can just review each others work without a journal giving you permission right, and only then do I arrive at c) ok there are systemic problems but seriously have you considered (a) and (b) and how this is all entirely optional
@jonny Having eschewed academic publishing from the get go I followed the path you have mentioned. My PhD thesis is on my website where I placed this https://ooze.net/about/ invitation to anyone to review it to help me improve it as a resource.
There are Real Problems on this earth and academics not being able to figure out how to host and talk about PDFs isnt one of them. Have a little levity break in the open access discourse and realize there is in fact no problem. Of course publicly funded information should be free. Of course we should be able to organize the labor of review amongst ourselves. What are you joking?
What do you mean you pay ten thousand united states dollars to perpetuate a universally reviled institution with no discernable function, are you unwell?
You have no leverage in any system where you demonstrate youre not willing to walk. Flex the temptation of doubling your wage by selling out to the surveillance capitalists to improve working conditions in the academy. If you want me to demonstrate my fealty to the prestige religion, fuck off ive got options for your irrelevant ass.
@villavelius @sabik
Literally the plan is to just post shit online!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what im saying by "its not actually a problem you are all just making it up!!!!!!!" It is 100% Exactly the same plan as eisen and varmus had with e-biomed in 1999!!!!! Pretending like there is some complex problem that plebians like me cant solve until they have seen the light of the latest Plan 9 from Academic Space is the only remaining problem!
@jonny@villavelius
Right, how do you get hired and promoted when what you've done is posted shit online and what the research institutions expect on your CV are (at the end of the day) Elsevier trademarks
@sabik @villavelius https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112291491771015688
Start from the fact that you shouldnt imagine the problem as one you face alone. Pushing the problem to the t&p committees is the first and most obvious excuse to do nothing. You are smarter, braver, and more creative than that.
There's probably some merit in a scholarly paper on whether a DOI is a necessary identifier for a scholarly paper, with perhaps a sibling paper on whether citation graphs have any practical worth.
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