[governance] CFC: Business Organizations and Collaborative

Wed Dec 16 13:53:20 EST 2009

My experience with those folks was the same as Deirdre's and my responses
have been the same (disclosure: I did publish with them once when I was
young and naïve ;-0...

But I should also point out that most for-profit academic journal publishers
have parallel and similarly restrictive contracts (but yes, this is very
much in evolution and the specific nature of the restrictiveness varies from
publisher to publisher at this point... 

For journals this is in some sense even more restrictive since the major
problem comes not on the author's side but for the user since most of these
publishers have very expensive subscription rates and discriminatorialy
expensive rates for access to individual articles.

This is how I recently responded to a request to undertake an article review
for a commercial publisher who would have charged anywhere from $25-60 for
me to read that same article once it was published...

"Thanks for the invitation (to review) but as a matter of principle I don't
contribute free intellectual labour to non-open access, for-profit journals
and particularly when as is the case here, the underlying research was paid
for by public funds--this should, in my opinion, only be published in open
access journals."

Best to all,

MBG

Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief: The Journal of Community Informatics
http://ci-journal.net 
(an open access, open archive journal)

-----Original Message-----
From: Deirdre Williams [mailto:williams.deirdre at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:02 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kamna Malik
Subject: Re: [governance] CFC: Business Organizations and Collaborative 

Dear Friends,

Several years ago I saw a call for papers like this one, and from the same
publisher. The topic was connected with networking and diversity and very
much in line with my own interests. I submitted a proposal for a chapter
which was accepted. I spent the next three or four months stealing time
which didnt really exist so that I could complete the project inside the
deadline. Almost as an afterthought, on the Sunday before the final
Wednesday deadline, the editor circulated the contract for signature. The
contract required me to sign over to the publisher, absolutely, every
vestige of my copyright in the material, whether it was eventually published
or not. In return would come enhancement to my reputation from my work
being included in the publication.

I withdrew the work immediately. I had already broken the terms of the
contract since I had already shared the document for comments with other
people in the field.

I contacted the other chapter authors but no one seemed to share my outrage
at these conditions. One man was in fact quite rude to me :-) I understand
that contracts like the one I was sent are customary  a rule rather than an
exception. I also understand the imperatives of publish or perish. However
I expect there are still people who subscribe to an ethic of sharing and
open content. To those I would like to suggest that they avoid the trap I
fell into and ask to see the contract BEFORE they embark on the project.

Let me be absolutely clear  this is not about money, but about rights, and
specifically about the right to share.

Deirdre

2009/12/16 Kamna Malik <kamna.malik at gmail.com>:
> Chapter proposals are invited for the upcoming book -
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> Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies 
> and Patterns
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> To be edited by Kamna Malik and Praveen Choudhary
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> Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
> - Journey of the Web: History and stages of growth of the web, 
> emerging Web tools and their applications
> - Individual aspects: Knowledge entrepreneurs, competitive landscape 
> of individuals
> - Business aspects: Global supply chains, co-creation of knowledge, 
> products and services, changing forms of organization structure and 
> dynamics, extent of technology friendliness, control versus trust, 
> competitive landscape of business  practices, strategies and patterns
> - Social aspects: Emergence of the virtual world, development of 
> communities, freedom of voice, competitive landscape for nations
> - Information System aspects: IS organization structure, future forms 
> of information infrastructure, information security, integrity and 
> assurance, competitive landscape of information systems function
> - Ethical and Legal aspects: IP ownership, ethical blogging, 
> information policies and practices
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> Proposal Submission by: January 5, 2010
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> Proposal Decision by:  January 20, 2010
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> Full Chapter Submission by:  March 5, 2010
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> Complete call for chapters is available at
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> http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=728
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