[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: outrageous prices of books & journals,

Fri Feb 9 15:16:04 GMT 2018

This is far from a new issue/problem.  And, although Elsevier and other publishers may reasonably be portrayed as villainous, we need to look in the mirror to see our own complicity.  As a field, we have for many years not sufficiently attended to the problem, nor acted on proposed solutions.  And, our professional organizations have made decisions that have exacerbated the problem.

To substantiate that assessment, I have attached two publications from the NRC Yearbook (notably when it was published in-house by NRC).  Here are the citations.  The first was authored by the members of an NRC ad hoc Committee on Disseminating Literacy Scholarship.

Beach, R., Carter, A., East, D., Johnston, P., Reinking, D., Smith-Burke, T., & Stahl, N.  (2007). Resisting commercial influences on accessing scholarship:  What literacy researchers need to know and do.  In D. W. Rowe, R. T. Jimenez, D. L. Compton, D. K. Dickinson, Y. Kim, K. M. Leander, & V. J. Risko (Eds.),  56th yearbook of the National Reading Conference, (pp. 96-124).  National Reading Conference.  Milwaukee, WI.
Reinking, D.  (1996).  Reclaiming a scholarly ethic:  Deconstructing “intellectual property” in a post-typographic world.  In D. J. Leu, C. K. Kinzer, & K.A. Hinchman (Eds.), Literacies for the 21st Century: Research and practice (pp. 461-470).  Forty-fifth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.  Chicago, IL:  National Reading Conference.

In regard to actions taken, despite some who raised the very issues we are now discussing, more than a decade ago, NRC decided to end in-house publishing of JLR and to move it to a commercial publisher, and recently also the Yearbook.  And, for albeit complicated reasons, RRQ is also now published commercially.

Many of the proposals for action in the cited sources are still relevant, although there are newer options such as universities, such as my former one, that collect page-proof copies of publications and make them freely available online (this is not a violation of copyright).  I also have a dashboard that reports downloads and where they are coming from around the world.  See:

https://readership.works.bepress.com/?.authP=authdash%2Cuserid%2C.authTX&authdash=1&userid=967899&.authTX=1533075708&.authT=LWiBYuT85qQDH1rX3Ktkvb4IrPcOEc&utm_source=Authors&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ReadershipReport-2018-02-02#/

David Reinking
Emeritus Professor of Education
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From: <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Stephen Krashen <skrashen at yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, February 9, 2018 at 1:57 AM
To: "reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>, Jan Turbill <jturbill at uow.edu.au>
Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] outrageous prices of books & journals,

Let's start changing things.
1. Hall of Famers please consider publishing in open access journals -this will gradually increase their status.
Yes, some are predatory but many are not.
2.  When we serve on review committees, state that the criteria is quality of work, not "prestige" of the journals.
3. Write shorter papers. This means more room in the journals, and it makes it easier for colleagues to read your papers and therefore cite them and thereby increase the prestige of the journal.. And it makes it easier for review committees to actually read papers written by candidates for promotion.
4. Post your own articles on your website for free download. Many of you are doing this already.  Mine are at www.sdkrashen.com. If you already do this, please share the information with others.

Other fields are way ahead of us, eg Math, led by Fields Medal winner Tim Gowers - see. Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices<http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/02/thousands-scientists-vow-boycott-elsevier-protest-journal-prices>.

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Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott ...

The scandal extends to edited books, as many of you know. Prices are so outrageous and nobody will read your paper.

Attached a (short) paper on why we need to write short papers.
Like everyone on this listserv, I get requests to review articles for journals all the time. About five years ago, I started telling the editors I would be happy to review but only articles 5 pages or less. I have not reviewed a single paper since that time.

We can start changing this.

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