[SSC] {Spam?} {Spam?} RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITY REACHES INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHER SOCIAL SCIENCES DIRECTORY

Tue Dec 11 17:05:16 UTC 2012

fuck you. fuck pay to play.
obviously there are problems with journals having closed access (which
alienates and disenfranchises researchers from 'less developed'... less
wealthy... countries) but academics find ways to get around that. i can
share an article with a colleague easily, or gain access to a library with
journal subscriptions, but i can't exactly publish their work using my name
or institutional affiliation. there are plenty of open access journals that
don't use this model of fooling naive researchers into paying to get
information out. more established faculty aren't going to need to pay to
get their research out there, so this is only going to affect
non-permanent/non-tenured faculty and postgraduates, or researchers in
alternative institutions such as the SSC.
i'd ideally like to ask that this person be cautioned against making such
press releases on here, since their all-too-corporate project clearly is at
odds with models of open, participatory and equitable education. that being
said, if they're willing to explain how this site does not fit into a wider
assault on autonomous education, and how transferring costs from consumer
to producer of intellectual content does not constitute a farsical
injustice, i'd be interested to hear... i doubt it.
alex casper cline

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Dan Scott <
dan.scott at socialsciencesdirectory.com> wrote:

> *PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
>
> * *
>
> *RUSSELL GROUP UNIVERSITY REACHES INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH
> OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHER SOCIAL SCIENCES DIRECTORY *
>
> * *
>
> UK-based ‘gold’ open access publisher Social Sciences Directory Limited
> today announces that Russell Group member, the University of Nottingham,
> has become the first university in the world to take up an institutional
> membership to the multi-disciplinary journal Social Sciences Directory (
> www.socialsciencedirectory.com). ****
>
>                     ****
>
> The institutional membership, which costs GBP 2,000, will allow an
> unlimited number of manuscript submissions to be made without any
> additional payments of either article processing charges or subscriptions,
> up to the end of 2013. The intention is to cut the time taken to publish
> and disseminate research, whilst maintaining editorial quality controls.
> All research papers will undergo peer review and be published under a
> Creative Commons CC-BY licence. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Tony Simmonds, Faculty Team Leader – Social Sciences at the University of
> Nottingham, commented:****
>
> *“Nottingham has long been a proponent of open access publishing, with an
> established research fund to pay open access charges. We believe this is a
> promising and bold venture, and one that deserves backing.”*
>
> * *
>
> Dan Scott, founder and director, commented:****
>
> *“This is a landmark agreement and I am very pleased that a university as
> prestigious as Nottingham has become the first to support this initiative.
> Having worked in subscription publishing for years, I heard academics and
> librarians complain about its flaws and cost but say there was no viable
> alternative. Open access publishing provides significant benefits for
> authors and readers alike in widening access, allowing author copyright
> retention and providing better value-for-money for taxpayers. Core to our
> thinking is that Social Sciences Directory provides a platform for
> published research across a broad range of disciplinary areas and from a
> wide international catchment. We hope this agreement will act as an example
> to other universities and that they will follow suit.”*
>
> ** **
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> * *
>
> *ENDS*
>
> * *
>
> *11.12.2012*
>
> * *
>
> NOTE TO EDITORS:****
>
> Social Sciences Directory Limited was founded in 2012 by Dan Scott, as a
> ‘gold’ open access publisher. It was set up in reaction to many well-known
> issues in scholarly publishing such as IP, the quantity of wasted material,
> outdated methodologies and unsustainable costs at a time of widespread
> budget austerity. It has established two websites, Social Sciences
> Directory which is ‘live’ and Humanities Directory, which is in the process
> of being set up and aims to publish its first issue in early 2013. A
> central concept is that most research is now carried out online using
> keyword searches, and Social Sciences Directory simplifies the process by:
> ****
>
> **·         **removing individual journal titles in favour of a large
> repository****
>
> **·         **making the resulting content freely available****
>
> ** **
>
> In addition, value-added content such as case studies, presentations,
> reports and conference proceedings can be submitted free of charge and
> published subject to editorial approval.****
>
> ** **
>
> Social Sciences Directory is an affiliate member of the Open Access
> Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) <http://oaspa.org/>.****
>
> ** **
>
> For further information, please contact Daniel Scott, Director, Social
> Sciences Directory Limited on +44 (0)1423 326 257 or +44 (0)770 381 2042.*
> ***
>
> Email dan.scott at socialsciencesdirectory.com;
> dan.scott at humanitiesdirectory.com ****
>
> URL www.socialsciencesdirectory.com; www.humanitiesdirectory.com ****
>
> * *
>
> ** **
>
> The University of Nottingham, described by The Sunday Times University
> Guide 2011 as ‘the embodiment of the modern international university’, has
> 40,000 students at award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and
> Malaysia. It is ranked in the UK’s Top 10 and the World’s Top 75
> universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and the QS World University
> Rankings. It was named ‘the world’s greenest university’ in the UI
> GreenMetric World University Ranking 2011.****
>
> ** **
>
> More than 90 per cent of research at the University of Nottingham is of
> international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment
> Exercise. The University’s vision is to be recognised around the world for
> its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy &
> sustainability, and health. The University won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2011/november/queensanniversaryprize.aspx> for
> Higher and Further Education in 2011, for its research into global food
> security.****
>
> * *
>
> *For more information about the University of Nottingham, please visit:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk***
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Dan Scott MA, BA (Hons)****
>
> Director****
>
> *Social Sciences Directory Limited*
>
> T: +44 (0)1423 326 257****
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> M: +44 (0)770 381 2042****
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> ** **
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> *www.humanitiesdirectory.com*
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