How a Samizdat Journal Will Work #lra18 @vconnecting
As part of my call to "do" open rather than form ad-hoc committees and "talk" about open I challenged myself to build the infastructure for a peer reviewed samzidat journal.
Today I released an MVP of the peer review system you can find here: https://samizdat.jgregorymcverry.com/review soI thought I should explain it a bit more.
Academic Samizdat, is the practice of publishing all your own research from your website.
For the last four years I have published ab Opebn Source system LRA "could" use to archive session papers and proposals. I demoed many of these and we never got any buy in.
Figure it is time to stop talking and start doing
Samizdat Worflow
We will have a peer reviewed research journal focused on blogging and social media research. The journal editors will put out a call
You will publish a draft similar to: https://jgmac1106homepage.glitch.me/openpedagogycasestudy.html
All you have to do, if you have #IndieWeb tools on your site, is mention the call by linking to it anywhere in the post. If you do not have webmentions enabled you can post a link to your drafty as a reply to the call.
The editors will then review your work and write up an openly available review simialr to: https://samizdat.jgregorymcverry.com/review
You will then recieve a webmention when your article is finished:
The reviewers will then send comments to your draft as you work together processing the piece to get it ready for publication.
A final draft can be published on yoru website and syndicated to our site.
What kind of pieces will Samizdat accept?
Nearly all of them. Our goal is to remove the false economy of scarcity and mentor new knowledge. The topics should be reaserch, theory, opinion, or poetry about blogging and social media.
You can use any and all modes. The final presentation will be in HTML. As long as you can send a file in html from your website you will be fine. If you want to get fancy with CSS, video, scripts, etc we encourage this play. We will provie no restriction on design or mutimodality.
We also epecially ecnourage you to publish pieces that have been published elsewhere (if copyright allows). What the publishing barons call self-plagirism we call syndication.
Next Steps
I need to write the copy and design the layout for the fron matter. Make a few template pages, design a holistic five point rubric, and write the first call.
If you want to get involved find me on Twitter or simply link to this post from your website and I will find you.
