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- Academics resign en masse from journal boards for whom they perform unpaid labor and form their own lightweight nonprofit groups. - The purpose of these nonp
by civilized 4y ago
- Academics resign en masse from journal boards for whom they perform unpaid labor and form their own lightweight nonprofit groups.
- The purpose of these nonprofit groups is to select submissions for peer review and acceptance to their "journal".
- The "journal" can be simply a website with a list of links to the arXiv. Hosting and serving the articles is optional.
Versions of this plan have already been successfully executed by academics, perhaps most famously in the editorial revolts against Elsevier's topology journals [1]. The associated nonprofits continue to operate the new open access journals successfully [2,3]. These organizations don't just outsource to arXiv, but you could if you were a group of busy academics who wanted to keep it as simple and lightweight as possible.
[1] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=442 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=442
[2] https://msp.org/ https://msp.org/
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Topology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Topology