Alternative types of academic publications.
What it is:
Project dedicated to share academic material in alternative formats. Aimed at the diffusion of the idea of open publication, or open access publication, a branch of open science, a multidisciplinary movement that seeks to modify the paradigm of knowledge production that centralizes and prevents its spread. Historically, Western tradition has become firmly rooted in the free dissemination of knowledge among peers. However, the concentration of investment in research, channels of publication and creative capacity around closed institutions of production and publication of knowledge interrupted this tradition on a large scale. Diverse movements inspired by the concepts of free software and open source have joined the still evolving concept of open science.
This page is not an electronic journal, or periodical, or open access publisher, or repository of pre-prints. Like the concepts that I want to defend, I designed this to be an alternative publication modality itself. Project specs:
- It is a one-man venture (for now), but open to contributions. Its goal is to become descentralized and community-driven.
- No periodicity, shared material is identified by versioning.
- There will be no editoring, but a minimal quality assesment for an unambiguous evidence base. - Example: you will not see in this page texts about UFOs or alternative sciences (the alternative of the page is the format).
- It will not have a peer review system, but will be open to the free commentary, provided the Comment Policy is followed.
- There will never be monetary charges (but I will accept donations).
How to use:
The information disclosed will always be made available under open licenses compatible with the Open Science movement, especially (but not exclusively) the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. No copyrighted content will be published, but citations may be made to materials so protected if comments on other publications are published. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. By obeying these principles and the consensual ethics of the academic community, any and all available material may be reused, modified, quoted, linked to other pages, or compiled into databases.
Disclosure:
The project has a webpage generated by GitHub Pages, which can be seen here.
How to contribute:
Because the project is available in a GitHub repository, the contribution process can be streamline as such. If you still do not have a GitHub (free) account, sign up, open an issue or fork the repository, add your content and make a pull request to the project. In addition, there is the most usual way of contributing: send an email, or use any of the social networks that I made available. Finally, comments on the published texts are very welcome. Check the Complete guide to contributions. Give your opinion!
Author:
Francisco Helder Cavalcante Felix, pediatric oncologist at Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin, Fortaleza - CE, Brasil, since 2008
Member of Society for Neuroncology/ Society for Neuroncology Latin America - SNO since 2015
Contact: fhcflx@outlook.com - twitter: @fhcflx
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