[governance] CFC: Business Organizations and Collaborative

Thu Dec 17 14:13:47 EST 2009

Deirdre, I also subscribe to the ethic of sharing and open content.  Perhaps
it is a matter of time but ultimately, academic publishers and their
contracts will also evolve with this growing phenomemon of open content.

However, I also believe that sharing  or protecting knowledge are two
separate schools of thought.  Both have their own merits/demerits, their own
audience and both co-exist today.  More important is that publishers/editors
appraise the authors about the contractual needs, if any, well in time.

Well, coming back to the CFC that raised this discussion - yes, there is an
agreement required for transfer of copyright which will be shared with the
potential contributors in initial stages though signing up will take place
only after acceptance decision is made.  In this case, the author still
retains the intellectual property of the content.

Hope this clarifies that the intent here is not to trap any colleague but to
get the contemporary thoughts and practices across to even those readers
who still pick their readings from the publisher catalogues.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 didn’t 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 -
> >
> >
> >
> > Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies
> > and Patterns
> >
> >
> >
> > To be edited by Kamna Malik and Praveen Choudhary
> >
> >  To be published by IGI Global Publishing.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Proposal Submission by: January 5, 2010
> >
> > Proposal Decision by:  January 20, 2010
> >
> > Full Chapter Submission by:  March 5, 2010
> >
> >
> >
> > Complete call for chapters is available at
> >
> > http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=728
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > For submissions and queries, please write to
> > kamna.malik at u21global.edu.sg
> >
> >
> >
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