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We are delighted to announce that the new, multidisciplinary Diamond #OpenAccess journal **Replication Research (R2)** is now accepting submissions for replications and reproductions in a broad range of disciplines including #linguistics, #CogSci, and #DigitalHumanities! 馃帀
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
@ElenLeFoll To all #hci people out there - should we not try to create something similar to - maybe slowly but hopefully steadily - get away from #acm and their capitalist version of open access that excludes institutions who are not willing or able to pay their excessive publication fees?
@floe
@flowdie
@jbigham
@harvardhci
@hci@princeton.edu
@cmuhcii
@hcigroup
@jovermeulen
@abulling @ElenLeFoll @floe @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen easier said than done. The issue is always that such venues are only usable by senior academics; ECRs are reliant on prestigious, existing venues to have a chance at an academic job (if that is their thing).
The first thing that needs to happen is changing tenure criteria to heavily favour such venues. Otherwise such endeavours are doomed to fail. Unfortunately, these ideas have been out there for at least a decade (or longer, that's just the time I've followed), but nobody does anything.
I've mostly given up on this issue after hearing a decade of "oh yes I support that" combined with record breaking lethargy from senior academics.
@odr_k4tana @abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen unfortunately, very true 馃槙 I'm trying to lead by example here (because, at some point, I turned into a "senior academic" 馃懘), but it doesn't feel like there's much impact yet - I feel like you need to have a lot of patience in this race, and that's a luxury most non-tenured folks cannot afford 馃槕
@floe @abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen I'm pretty convinced that most if not all academic change/reform has to be initiated top-down, because the bottom 80% (ECRs) are dependent on the metrics the top sets to stay in academia.
I believe people care when I see them move goalposts or start doing stuff that benefits the people lower in the food chain. Everything else is just performative, as far as I'm concerned.
@abulling @ElenLeFoll @flowdie @jbigham @harvardhci @cmuhcii @hcigroup @jovermeulen 100% agreed - this is exactly why @jovi exists! (which is also diamond OA, and focuses on the HCI/VIS community)
Coincidentally, we're looking for additional ACs and steering committee members, so I sense an opportunity 馃槈
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