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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Jennifer wrote :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">In terms of restricting where one may publish, doesn't the usual institutional tenure and promotion policy do that as well, if more subtly? There
are definite expectations of where one may publish, as I understand it. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">(Not being tenure-track myself.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">That’s right on point (</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">same for
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">the rest of Jennifer’s post).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">While all agree that academic freedom includes the freedom to choose one’s research topics and to disseminate the results, there is much variation
among organisations and individual researchers as to the exact meaning of this freedom, particularly its extent in practice. For instance,
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Manan, cited by Karran and Mallinson (2017, p. 6;
<a href="http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/26811">http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/26811</a>) points out that “there are professors who used academic freedom as a weapon to defend themselves from their performance being evaluated by the academic community”. These would
certainly, on the same basis, object to the rules (implicit or explicit) you allude requiring publication in peer-reviewed journals, or in a certain class or category of them. However, few have done so, and I don’t think they have had any success, even if
one may argue that it’s what AAUP’s “full freedom in the publication of the results” means.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">As I explained in a previous post, the use of academic freedom as an argument is justified, in my opinion, when it’s a condition for “doing science
right”, meaning in the interests of the scientific community and/or the public. It would be perfectly justified if a rule or decision has the potential to make certain topics impossible to pursue, or certain results impossible to disseminate. For instance,
were universities to enforce their copyright on the works of their professors (which they most probably own, at least in certain jurisdictions), that would be in real conflict with academic freedom, because they would be able to decide if a given work can
be published, or if a part of it should be removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">But if we go further than that, for instance the freedom to choose any journal, I think it’s more fruitful to discuss the issues at hand, in this
case first and foremost the hierarchy (or “prestige economy”) of journals, instead of trying to ascertain if a rule or a decision is in conflict with a certain definition or interpretation of academic freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Marc Couture<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- - - - - - - - - - - - -
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De :</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org [mailto:scholcomm-request@lists.ala.org]
<b>De la part de</b> Jennifer Heise<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> 26 mars 2018 10:38<br>
<b>À :</b> SANFORD G THATCHER<br>
<b>Cc :</b> Danny Kingsley; scholcomm; goal@eprints.org<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [SCHOLCOMM] On Academic Freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I have some questions in relation to these assertions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I'm unclear how signing your copyright over to a publisher in toto (which is basically what I was asked to do when publishing with Haworth) would still allow you the right to object to derivative works. Surely only the
copyright owner can object to derivative works, and in fact, if the creator is not the copyright owner, the copyright owner has the right to object to derivative works subsequently published by the original creator! (In fact, this is one of the issues I believe
the Statute of Anne was meant to address-- Gervase Markham, for instance, was sued by a consortium of his publishers for having sold them all works that were derivatives of each other.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">In terms of restricting where one may publish, doesn't the usual institutional tenure and promotion policy do that as well, if more subtly? There are definite expectations of where one may publish, as I understand it.
(Not being tenure-track myself.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">After 27 years in the field of librarianship, I can confidently assert that the decline of the scholarly presses that Sandy Thatcher decries predates the OA movement significantly, though not predating the surge of predatory
pricing in the 1990s by journal publishers. 18% increases in journal budgets were the rule of thumb even before the widespread electronic availability of subscriptions (the research on that trend is left as an exercise for the reader), and many academic libraries
were cutting book budgets to survive even then. Even the AUP admits that the decline of the university press can seen as far back as 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">respectfully,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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