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Hi,<br>
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Given <span style="">this event is being sponsored by the
</span><span style="">Times Higher Education magazine and the </span><span
style="">publishers SAGE, Routledge, and Wiley Blackwell,</span> <span
style=""> and includes a panel discussion on the future of
journals with senior managers at Routledge, SAGE and Wiley
Blackwell</span>, those on this list may be interested to read:<br>
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David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and Kenneth Weir, ‘What
Are We To Do With Feral Publishers?’,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9689">http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9689</a>. <br>
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Simon Lilley, ‘How Publishers Feather Their Nests on Open Access to
Public Money’, Times Higher Education, 1 November, 2012, p. 30-31,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421672&c=1">http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421672&c=1</a><br>
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Harvie et al call for what is effectively a boycott of Routledge if
their parent company, Informa plc, does not bring down its journal
subscriptions charges and pay the UK Exchequer the approximately £13
million lost to the treasury as a result of its 2009 decision to
become a Jersey company domiciled in Zug, the canton with the lowest
rate of taxation in Switzerland. (It seems Informa can be placed
alongside Amazon, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Google and Starbucks on the
roll call of companies that aggressively avoid paying the standard
rate of 26% tax in the UK.)<br>
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Writing for the Sage journal Organization, Harvie et al also
conclude by calling 'upon the editors of Organization to press Sage
to lower the subscription price to a more acceptable level' If that
approach fails, they 'suggest that the editors, writers and readers
of Organization follow the example set by Topology in leaving the
journal en masse to set up, submit to and subscribe to an identical
journal, that charges a more acceptable fee.'<br>
<br>
Gary <br>
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Gary Hall
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Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
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Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
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Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
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On 16/11/2012 15:26, Peter Suber wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Invitation to
important conference on Open Access Publishing, 29
and 30 November</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">You are invited
to a major two-day conference</span></b><span
style=""> to look at how implementing the Finch
Review on Open Access Publishing will affect
researchers and learned societies in the arts,
humanities and social sciences.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Dame Janet Finch
will co-chair the event, which takes place at the
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street,
London EC1Y 8LX on 29 and 30 November. It is
sponsored by the Times Higher Education magazine and
the publishers SAGE, Routledge, and Wiley Blackwell,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The Academy of
Social Sciences is running the event in the wake of
questions about the switch to open access.
Non-science disciplines are unsure there will be
sufficient funding to pay for papers to be published
in journals under the new ‘gold option’ system, and
learned societies are concerned that their journal
income will fall.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The first day of the
conference is for researchers, both within and
outside of universities, and senior university
managers. It looks at the implications of the review
for individual academics, for the 2020 Research
Excellence Framework exercise, and for authors’
rights and intellectual property.
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Speakers include:
Professor Dame Lynne Brindley, Member of AHRC
Council and former Chief Executive of the British
Library; Professor Tim Blackman, Pro Vice
Chancellor, The Open University; Professor Robert
Dingwall, who will bring an independent perspective;
Paul Hubbard, Head of Research Policy, HEFCE;
Maureen Duffy, President of Honour, British
Copyright Council; Professor Charlotte Waelde,
Professor of Intellectual Property, Law, University
of Exeter; and Jude England, Head of Social
Sciences, The British Library.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The second day is
for senior managers of learned societies and is
chaired by Professor Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Salford, a member of the Finch
Committee. It looks at the implications of the
review for journals and the business models of
learned societies in the UK and US.<strong><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">It includes a panel
discussion on the future of journals with senior
managers at Routledge, SAGE and Wiley Blackwell.
Other speakers include Sally Hardy, Chief Executive
of the Regional Studies Association; Professor
Stephen Bailey, Professor of Public Law, University
of Nottingham; Dr Rita Gardner, Director of the
Royal Geographical Society; and Dr Felice J Levine,
Executive Director, American Educational Research
Association.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">For more details of
the event, see:
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href="http://www.acss.org.uk" target="_blank">www.acss.org.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">To book a free
place, please contact Tony Trueman, Academy Press
Officer, at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:t.trueman@acss.org.uk"
target="_blank">t.trueman@acss.org.uk</a> or on
07964 023392.</span></b> </p>
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