Archive:FCX/Unconference/FC research roundtable for academics

SFC and Academia
Publishing in open access journal
 * Law reviews, frequently student-run
 * Is it harder to start a new OA journal or to turn a closed journal OA?
 * How do OA journals rise in their status?
 * Lots of p2p of aca publishing, also peer-2-author

Opening the conversation
 * Aca-blogging regarding specific papers
 * Aca-wiki summaries
 * "Informal peer review"

Widespread collaboration
 * Disincentivized by original methodologies
 * How do you cite or ascribe authorship?

Solutions?
 * "Critical mass" of people who will not wait for institutional change
 * Practicing according to your ethics

Scholarly publishing roundtable

Future of peer review
 * Anonymity
 * How would openness and transparency change this?
 * What about specialized areas in which peer review isn't very anonymous?
 * e.g. certain areas of mathematics