ELSSS - the ELectronic Society for Social Scientists - was a public-spirited and optimistic project on which I worked unbelievably hard from 1999 to 2004.
Traces of it can be found all over the web. To avoid legal actions that I cannot afford to defend I shall not reveal the reasons why it ultimately failed to produce the innovative journal(s) it was about to launch with worldwide support from both academic libraries and economists. The people who effectively killed ELSSS know who they are.
Traces of it can be found all over the web. To avoid legal actions that I cannot afford to defend I shall not reveal the reasons why it ultimately failed to produce the innovative journal(s) it was about to launch with worldwide support from both academic libraries and economists. The people who effectively killed ELSSS know who they are.
I am one of the original signatories of the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative.
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As part of my activities to promote ELSSS, I presented a number of papers on academic journal publishing.
- LONDON (11 March 2002): CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries): New Routes to Scholarly
- EDINBURGH (20-23 March 2002): The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, Old College, University of
- GLASGOW (9th April 2002): "Create Change" Conference organised by the University of Glasgow.
- LONDON (10th April 2002): Pan-London Advocacy Event, Senate House, University of London.
- GLASGOW (Aug. 2002): IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), 68th World Congress.
- TRIESTE, Italy (4-5 October 2002): Open Round Table Developing Country Access to On-Line Scientific Publishing:Sustainable Alternatives
- LUND-COPENHAGEN (22-24 October 2002): 1st Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communications
- NEW BRUNSWICK (New Jersey) (19 November 2002): Peer Review in Electronic and Print Journals and Competition in the Scholarly
- OTTAWA (21-22 November 2002): Research Innovation and Scholarship: the Role of Open Access Publishing, Canadian Association of Research Libraries Meeting
- CAMBRIDGE ( 1-4 September 2002) "CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN A CENTRAL BANK / REGULATORY AGENCY LIBRARY" Workshop, Christ’s College Cambridge.
Publications on academic publishing
"The ELectronic Society for Social Scientists: from journals as documents to journals as knowledge exchanges" (with Jean Young), Interlending & Document Supply, Volume 30, No. 4 . 2002, pp. 178-182
"The economics of publishing and the publishing of economics", Library Review, 2003 (52(1)), pp. 18-28
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"The benefits and challenges of academic-led scholarly and scientific journals: the ELSSS project as a test case", DF-Revy, 2003, pp. 101-104.
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"The public domain and the economist", Chapter 10 in Intellectual Property. The many faces of the public domain. C. Waelde and H. MacQueen, 2007, E. Elgar.
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