tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post2888315387795499240..comments2023-08-17T10:18:24.628-04:00Comments on Multilitteratus Incognitus: Appropriateness of primary materials? Thoughts on peer reviewApostolos K. ("AK")http://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-1158586097651165762014-09-30T11:03:20.549-04:002014-09-30T11:03:20.549-04:00Brian you bring up a valid point: accessibility. ...Brian you bring up a valid point: accessibility. Most academic articles are written with a specific language type in mind (the academic language), so the audience tends to be mostly academics. That said, there are many professionals out there that would benefit a lot from updates in the research literature but don't have access to it. Access here I would define in two ways: <br /><br /><br />"Physical" access in that many articles are behind paywalls and are expensive to access (some are up to $30 per article! Insane!)<br /><br /><br />"cognitive" access (for lack of a better word) because readers have not necessarily been apprenticed into the lingo of the discipline.<br /><br /><br />Part of the problem, in my opinion, is the issue of tenure and promotion in higher education. A professor needs to publish in high impact journals (which are exclusionary, in many senses of the word) in order to have that cache, and get to keep their job. Of course, this has the effect of keeping people out. Pretty silly if you ask me. In order for the system to change, however, you need people on the inside willing to take a risk of not getting tenure by experimenting with open publishing (open in many different ways). Of course if one person does it he/she is a target. If many people do it, there is power there! :)Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-6947479962605453002014-09-23T22:29:33.017-04:002014-09-23T22:29:33.017-04:00As a non-academic, but someone who might find hims...As a non-academic, but someone who might find himself reading this work, I would need a fair bit of googling to keep up with this. I am almost certainly not the key demographic for this article, though. However, that brings up two thoughts: <br /><br />1. Should this type of writing be more accessible to other professionals who are not perhaps completely involved in the topic, without a jargon dictionary? <br /><br />2. Would this article be digital? Couldn't some excellent hypertextual footnoting help here? I mean… we have the technology…Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-52406418384232094692014-09-20T10:06:28.937-04:002014-09-20T10:06:28.937-04:00LOL, Paul, that's a pretty cynical view (re: y...LOL, Paul, that's a pretty cynical view (re: you didn't cite me, so it's junk) :-) I don't doubt that there are people like that out there though :)Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-61642416372757134902014-09-17T15:32:06.447-04:002014-09-17T15:32:06.447-04:00That peer reviewer comment may mean that you negle...That peer reviewer comment may mean that you neglected to cite the reviewer's work. And if the reviewer does not recognize the work of authorities in the field as being of academic high quality, then perhaps the reviewer's qualifications should be called into question. <br /><br />The extent to which terms need to be defined, I think, depends on the expected audience. Amongst people who are engaged in research around MOOCs, it is reasonable to expect c- and x-MOOCs to be common knowledge. CCK and PLENK might need a brief description for those without enough background in the history. I wonder if citing and explaining things that are common knowledge doesn't diminish author credibility.<br /><br />My two cents anyway.Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.com