[GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

[Laura Czerniewicz]

Dear all
I am pretty much an outsider on this list. I have a serious commitment to open access publishing, and for awhile was seconded by my university to engage with the broader agenda and its implications.
Since then I have been doing other work and research which makes extremely clear the extent to which corporate agents and market forces are appropriating the open access agenda driven by profit-making . (One does not need to do additional research to know this, but our findings amplify the common sense observations.)
To me this discussion seems like fiddling while Rome burns, or to put it another way (and perhaps showing my age and background) it seems like Life of Brian where there is hair-splitting and arguments keeping people distracted with one another rather than collaborating to challenge the real forces which are threatening knowledge dissemination which serve the public good.
It makes for depressing reading in the face of what needs to be done.
Best
Laura

Professor Laura Czerniewicz
Director: Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT)
www.cilt.uct.ac.za<http://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/>
University of Cape Town
+27216505036
@czernie

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org <goal-bounces at eprints.org> On Behalf Of David Prosser
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:43
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal at eprints.org>
Subject: Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

I was on the Advisory Board at the time and so my comments may be discounted.

But my feeling is that the history of the DOAJ over the past few years has been that it has responded positively to very robust criticism, worked closely with the wider community in an interactive and engaged way to address such criticism, and emerged stronger as a result.

Any suggestion that the DOAJ has regarded 'all feedback / critique as anti-open access' is, in my view, hugely wide of the mark.

David


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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org> <goal-bounces at eprints.org<mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org>> on behalf of Guédon Jean-Claude <jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca<mailto:jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca>>
Sent: 21 August 2019 22:18
To: goal at eprints.org<mailto:goal at eprints.org> <goal at eprints.org<mailto:goal at eprints.org>>
Subject: Re: [GOAL] DOAJ: handmaiden to despots? or, OA, let's talk

"A habit of viewing all feedback / critique as anti-open access? Can such a statement be convincingly demonstrated?  I strongly doubt it...

"...reacting defensively, as if every critic were an enemy ..."

Really? Every critic? Now, now...

IMHO, robust exchanges should not be confused with various forms of paranoia, and pointing out weaknesses in arguments is not equivalent to treating someone as an "enemy".

Jean-Claude Guédon
On 2019-08-21 4:18 p.m., Heather Morrison wrote:
Some further perspective on my comment "the open access movement has developed a habit of viewing all feedback / critique as anti-open access [emphasis added] and reacting defensively, as if every [emphasis added] critic were an enemy" reflects the history of the OA movement.

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