{"id":1161,"date":"2007-12-31T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2007-12-31T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T16:47:22","slug":"an-open-access-academics-shot-across-the-bow-of-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"An open-access academic&#8217;s shot across the bow of publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/\">Nick Montfort<\/a>, MIT Assistant Professor of Digital Media, has publicly announced that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/grandtextauto.org\/2007\/12\/21\/digital-media-games-and-open-access\/#comments\">refusing to participate in peer-review processes for non-open-access journals<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/audsandens.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/academic-commons.html\">hat tip<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With regard to your request, I cannot agree to review for your journal right now. If [it] becomes an open access journal, I will be very glad to review articles for the journal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Montfort is wrong elsewhere in the entry when he describes subscription journals as anti-publication (an easy way to turn <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?tid=10611&amp;ttype=2\">John Willinsky&#8217;s spectrum of access<\/a> into a hostile dichotomy), and I think this is a poor strategic choice to move more academic publications into the open-access world. But this may be an indication of a cultural divide among academics around access issues, and if so, Montfort is definitely on the radical side of the divide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Montfort, MIT Assistant Professor of Digital Media, has publicly announced that he is refusing to participate in peer-review processes for non-open-access journals (hat tip): With regard to your request, I cannot agree to review for your journal right now. If [it] becomes an open access journal, I will be very glad to review articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-iJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}