[Air-L] Elsevier and peer review

[Jeff Pooley]

Thanks for raising this troubling episode. Like Zach says, this is no reason to impugn OA publishing, regardless of its many challenges (including the dominant author-pays model in the natural sciences and cynical OA opportunism of the Elsevier-buys-SSRN sort). I recently wrote about these issues in IJOC ("Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies"):

http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6154

In the wake of Elsevier's takeover of SSRN, if you're looking for a nonprofit OA preprint repository, the brand-new SocArxiv is superb (and built atop the Open Science Framework platform):

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv

Jeff 


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Jeff Pooley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Media & Communication
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew St., Allentown, PA 18104
484-664-3677
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> Date: December 29, 2016 at 6:00:31 PM EST
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> Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 149, Issue 43
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> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:58:02 +0000
> From: Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca>
> To: Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives at gmail.com>,
>    "air-l at listserv.aoir.org"    <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
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> Great suggestion, Charlie!
> ________________________________________
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charlie McNabb <mcnabbarchives at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 10:55 AM
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> 
> May I also suggest, those of you in academic institutions, forward this
> thread to your librarian. This is a tailor made lesson in both publishing
> practices and source evaluation. Undergraduate students tend to trust
> whatever comes out of a database.
> 
> And your librarian might hassle Elsevier too. :)
> 
> Charlie McNabb, MA, MLIS
> http://mcnabbarchives.wordpress.com/
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