[p2p-research] Two new university presses and a 'co-publishing' model

Fri Dec 21 19:32:33 CET 2007

Yeah, I think you could help OJS's and alternative academic "presses" think
through this. Maybe we could start by approaching existing OJS and emerging
open education projects, just to see what they are sayign existing
conditions are?

Plus, you may be able to create a kind of "pilot project" with Cooperation
Commons, who was exploring OJS CoopCommons journal a while back.

Also, there will definitely be opportunities with projects that I am working
on in the next six months, many of which will be based around co-funding
models.

In the short term, I humbly suggest you could blog about social publishing
on p2pfoundation blog, plus smartmobs, and your own blog, which could become
a kind of short term "pillar" to refer to about the subject (something to
refer to people to when talking about it online and off)

There could eventually be a kind of "Q & A" that people could apply to
different types of academic "social publishing", based on your concepts, to
help ensure success.  Some of the basics of this "Q&A", or self-querying
/self-evaluation could be open and available, for instance, and some more
advanced/"situational" consulting and knowledge could be available through
you and Richard for a fee. Yet, you could also create an open knowledge
repository around "social publishing" that lets people pool knowledge, and
that helps people realize what other people are thinking about, and how
others are solving problems in this realm. This could also be the "home
base" for your podcast and other ideas you've talked about with me and
others recently.

On Dec 21, 2007 1:08 PM, Paul B. Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that teaching OJS's how to think through social publishing,
> i.e.
> what it takes to be a successful OJS
> is
> a way that Rick and I could really help people.
>
> Sam (and p2presearch lurkers),  any chance you could help us get that
> ball rolling?
>
> much thx,
> -Paul
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 12:51 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > I've wondered if it might be possible for academic authors and
> interested
> > scholoars to adopt some of the methods of OJS http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
> > particularly enabling peer review.
> >
> > This seemed to me to have some promise as a University press
> alternative,
> > especially if tools can be developed to publish via print-on-demand.
> >
> > Similar "co-publishing" cost sharing models could work for some form of
> > "Open" Academic Press. I also think that such an "open" model press
> system
> > could gain credibility, mostly by producing high quality works over
> time.
> >
> > Right now, I am in the process of building two different "commons"-based
> > education platforms, for projects that want to pursue education outside
> of
> > the University systems. I know that others are doing this, too. One of
> the
> > platforms that I am building is in conjunction with
> > http://www.openfarmtech.org/  the open source ecology project, to create
> > project and knowledge commons spaces, and eventually education material
> > based on open licensed technology. This means that technical, and
> scientific
> > research is going to be done in an open way, and that scientific
> research
> > will be applied to open design, and technological development processes.
> >
> > I think as this type of activity increases, there will be a growing
> > alternative path for people who want to educate themselves. And,  there
> will
> > be a growing alternative path for academics who want to
> research/develop,
> > and publish for different areas.
> >
> > Co-publishing could actually become "distributed" publishing,
> incorporating
> > ideas like the http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/MicroBook idea
> Print
> > on demand and "Micro book" publishing can *cut* costs dramatically
> (entry
> > cost is close to zero)
> >
> > Everyone in the network could make volumes available, and "cost sharing"
> > could extend to everyone who uses the network, including all business
> > entities, though not required for using it digitally by individuals, for
> > instance.
> >
> > If you go to a location, you could get your book sections from a print
> on
> > demand machine, or access online. Full books could still be published
> and
> > sent to libraries of course
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Dec 21, 2007 12:06 PM, Richard Adler <RichardAdler at oort-cloud.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There's an interesting piece in today's 'Inside Higher Ed' concerning
> the
> > newly founded Webster University Press and Lee University Press:
> > >
> > > http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/21/upress
> > >
> > > Collaboration may not be an entirely new phenomenon among university
> > presses, but a term like 'co-publishing' raises interesting
> possibilities in
> > the current publishing environment.  While their vision is not what Paul
> > Hartzog and I have in mind when we speak of 'social publishing,' it
> might,
> > at least, suggest that some in the world of traditional publishing may
> be
> > more open to alternative models than they would have been in the past.
> > >
> > > Richard Adler
> > > Electronic Records Archivist
> > > Michigan State University
> > >
> > >
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> > Related Sites/Blogs/Projects:
> > OpenBusinessModels: http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage
> > http://p2pfoundation.net
> > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
> > http://www.cooperationcommons.com
> > http://barcampbank.org
> > http://bfwatch.barcampbank.org
> > http://communitywiki.org
> >  http://extinctionlevelevent.com
> >
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Related Sites/Blogs/Projects:
OpenBusinessModels: http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage
http://p2pfoundation.net
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
http://www.cooperationcommons.com
http://barcampbank.org
http://bfwatch.barcampbank.org
http://communitywiki.org
http://extinctionlevelevent.com

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http://del.icio.us/srose
http://twitter.com/SamRose
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