[Xmca-l] Re: Just Published: L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works Vol. 1

[Wagner Luiz Schmit]

Some ideas to change the way we publish in science:

W can use an Open Source platform like "Matrix" (https://matrix.org/),
connecting all researchers and institutions. Every researcher would have an
account in this decentralized network (something like the diaspora
network). There we can maintain a blog and "publish" papers. The papers use
"tags" or "hyperlinks" to mark quotations, also the kind of tag or
hyperlink indicates what the quote is, like a critique, data from another
source, support the other material, and so on (positive, negative and
neutral).

People in the network are notified by the publishing of that paper by
"following" the researcher, the department, the institution or tags (the
keywords) much like how already happen in for-profit sites like
Academia.edu and Researchgate, and can comment on the whole paper or
segments, and give their evaluation. Search engines can filter the most
commented, most quoted, most "supported" and so on, i.e., the paper is
evaluated by its contents and not the place of publishing.

Journals would do a very important "curator" job, selecting papers to
highlight them, to discuss a certain topic and so on.

Books can be made available in "Print on Demand" for libraries interested
in them, with a QR code or something like that to the "evaluation" of the
book at the network.

Crazy ideas? maybe. But it is a beginning.

Wagner

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 10:41 AM Wagner Luiz Schmit <wagner.schmit@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Kellog,
>
> I deeply admire your work, along with Professor Veresov and Professor
> Kravtsova. Really. If this looked like a personal attack, please know it
> was not. I myself published my paper on a Journal by SAGE Publishing in
> 2016 (not publishing much since Brazilian academia now is almost dead). I
> know how this market works: We work for free (writing, revising and
> editing) but get published and they make lots of money selling with
> overpricing to libraries.
>
> I read some opinions stating that this publishing model more hinders than
> helps science. And does copyright (not authorship) makes any sense in a
> Cultural-Historical framework?
>
> Disney changed the copyright laws to protect its assets many times (the
> irony is that they made fame and money with public domain material).
>
> And you point out another big problem today in Academia: how to grade
> published materials? With more and more super narrow fields the
> "double-blind review" is just a label and does not work. We all know the
> problems of evaluating a paper or journal by the number of quotations. The
> quote was to criticize or to support? How many of the quotes are from the
> same "circle"?
>
> Yeah, I know, we have bills to pay, we live in a publish or perish
> culture, Universities do not have good quality science as their main focus,
> the spread of information is not interesting for our capitalist society
> model and so on.
>
> What can we do to change this? In what way? Open Journals? Sci-Hub?
> Private sharing?
>
> Isn't produce a paper a "production"? Should not we change it?
>
> Again: I deeply admire all the efforts to make Vygotsky's works available
> in some way, but is there any other way?
>
> Wagner
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:11 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wagner--
>>
>> Nikolai and I did make all the material which we
>> ourselves wrote available for free. All you have to do is click the free
>> previews and the front and endmatter,and you'll get a free pdf. The free
>> previews will tell you, in summary form, what the actual lecture says, and
>> you can decide whether it's worth the money to be able to cite chapter and
>> verse.
>>
>> But I can think of a lot of good reasons for publishing with Springer.
>>
>> a) Springer have been around a while--they were founded when Marx was
>> just getting started in journalism and Vygotsky cites a lot of their
>> Gestalist books--hopefully they will last longer than, say, the Soviet
>> publishing house Vygotsky used did. (The Russian university press that
>> published the first version of the lectures back in 2001 is now bankrupt
>> and has disappeared without a trace!)
>> b) Springer are very much part of the academic market here in East Asia
>> (they aren't in Singapore for the cheap labour!)
>> c) Springer have an aggressive line in e-books, which are the main mode
>> for literacy on my commute to work these days. (Even in illiterate England,
>> Paul McCartney says he can ride the London tube now because everybody is
>> too busy looking up his picture on Google images to notice the original
>> sitting next to them).
>> d) Yelena Kravtsova is on the editorial board of the cultural-historical
>> research series, (She has some claim to the rights to Vygotsky's work,
>> according to the lawyers.)
>> e) Springer stocks libraries.
>>
>> I can also think of three good reasons for not making stuff free on the
>> internet.
>>
>> a) Somebody is going to sue you eventually (apply to Andy for details on
>> this).
>> b) It's too confusing for readers to sort out the chaff from the grain
>> these days.
>> c) It's gonna happen anyway.
>>
>> Actually, the main reason we chose Springer was the same reason that one
>> chooses a wife, husband, or more temporary partner even though they too
>> might just be hungry.
>>
>> Everybody out there was taking no risks and saying no. Springer
>> was willing to take a chance and say yes.
>>
>> David Kellogg
>> Sangmyung University
>>
>> New article with Fang Li:
>> "How do novels hang together? Characterization as registerial
>> meta-stability"
>> Text & Talk
>>
>>
>> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.ahead-of-print/text-2019-2051/text-2019-2051.xml
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:04 PM Wagner Luiz Schmit <
>> wagner.schmit@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We have this in Portuguese, and cheap. Very very interesting material
>>> presenting another unit of analysis.
>>>
>>> Seriously, why we as Marxists insists on publishing with money hunger
>>> corporations, for-profit publishers and so on?
>>>
>>> Wagner
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:11 AM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a pretty slim volume, and it's expensive. But if you click on
>>>> the free preview and the chapter summaries, you can get a pretty good idea
>>>> of what you (or your library) will be paying for.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811505270
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid that even the ebook is expensive:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-0528-7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But this is free!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-981-15-0528-7%2F1.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and so is this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-981-15-0528-7%2F1.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David Kellogg
>>>> Sangmyung University
>>>>
>>>> New article with Fang Li:
>>>> "How do novels hang together? Characterization as registerial
>>>> meta-stability"
>>>> Text & Talk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text.ahead-of-print/text-2019-2051/text-2019-2051.xml
>>>>
>>>>
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