[GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier

[Stevan Harnad]

"Remove Access" would of course be absurd, and completely contrary to the
spirit of OA (but that's not what J-CG meant).

"Cease to Pay for Access," on the other hand, is a call for a perfectly
valid and longstanding judgment-call by library serial acquisitions
committees, in consultation with their user community, as to how they spend
their serials budget.

The valuable historical service Jeffery Beall is providing by warning about
scam Gold OA journals (though it would be even more useful if extended to
all journals, whether OA or toll-access) is compromised by his inexplicable
hostility to OA itself and his equally inexplicable fealty to subscription
publishers and their M.O.

But calling an Open Access advocate the equivalent of a book-banner takes
the (vegan) cake...

SH

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Beall, Jeffrey <Jeffrey.Beall at ucdenver.edu>
wrote:

> I think that Guedon's advice to "Remove access to *Lingua* going forward"
> is the moral equivalent of a book banning.
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> There's no moral difference between saying "Remove access to *Lingua*"
> and saying "Remove the book *Heather Has Two Mommies*."
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> I understand that all book banners (and journal banners) think they are
> doing the right thing and helping society.
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> I think it is shameful for anyone, especially a librarian, to call for the
> removal of content from a library.
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> Guedon is the modern-day equivalent of a book banner. He is pressuring
> libraries to ban serials, the same, morally, as banning books.
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> Jeffrey Beall
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> University of Colorado Denver
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> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Richard Poynder
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:59 PM
> *To:* 'Global Open Access List' <goal at eprints.org>
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial
> board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier
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> *I am posting this message on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon:*
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> The article below (thanks to Colin Steele) is an example of a courageous
> move that must be supported by the libraries.
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> With regard to the *Lingua* (now *Glossa*) editorial board, libraries
> could, for example,
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> 1. Remove access to* Lingua* going forward (keep access to archive up to
> December 31st, 2015) if caught in a Big Deal; remove *Lingua* from
> subscriptions, starting in 2016, if not in a Big Deal
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> 2. Support *Glossa* (the new journal) financially,
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> 3. Promote *Glossa* widely. ERIH is already classifying the new journal
> at the level of its current status by arguing that the quality of a journal
> is linked to the editors and editorial board, and not to the publisher.
>
> Researchers in linguistics, of course, should boycott Elsevier's *Lingua*
> from now on.
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> This event also demonstrates the importance for Learned and scientific
> societies not to sell the title of their journals to publishers. So long as
> we foolishly evaluate research according to the place where it is published
> (i.e. a journal title), publishers will hold a strong trump card.
>
> Finally, this event displays the incredible behaviour of the
> multinational, commercial, publishers with particular clarity. These are
> not the friends of the scientific communication system we need.
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> Extract from *Inside Higher Ed* article:
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> “All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of *Lingua*, one of
> the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier's
> policies on pricing and its refusal to convert the journal to an
> open-access publication that would be free online. As soon as January, when
> the departing editors' noncompete contracts expire, they plan to start a
> new open-access journal to be called *Glossa*.”
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> The article can be read in full here:
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> https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/11/02/editors-and-editorial-board-quit-top-linguistics-journal-protest-subscription-fees
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> For a list of some of the other coverage of this issue see here:
> http://kaivonfintel.org/2015/11/05/lingua-roundup/
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