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== Crowdsourced index ==
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* good index but we can improve it; first draft by MIT; published version extensively revised by me; but still a lot of room for improvement
* large, so put it on another page; link to it from here; explain here and there that most HOAP wiki pages are editable only by project participants, but that the book index page is editable by any registered user
* large, so put it on another page; link to it from here; explain here and there that most HOAP wiki pages are editable only by project participants, but that the book index page is editable by any registered user

Revision as of 11:26, 22 April 2012

  • These are Peter Suber's supplements and updates to his book, Open Access: Research Unbound, MIT Press, 2012.


The book

  • ///here give links to MIT, Amazon, etc.; explain when/how it will become OA
  • The text was finished in the spring of 2011, with only one or two small updates inserted after that.
  • The word count is 147k, higher than MIT wanted. In many places I was constrained by the word count. For example, in the preface, I wanted to thank many more colleagues, but in the end I only thanked those who helped with economic support for my OA work.
  • Don't criticize MIT Press for not capitalizing the word "internet". The house style was to capitalize it. I insisted that it be decapitalized.
  • In most of my other writing about OA, I use the acronyms "OA" ("open access") and "TA" ("toll access") freely. But MIT didn't want too many acronyms in the text and suggested that we spell out "toll access". I agreed. But the result is that many sentences lack stylistic symmetry by contrasting open access (using "OA" the acronym) with toll access (using "toll access" the phrase).

Updates

  • Elsevier boycott

Second thoughts

  • Or: Notes toward the second edition
  • I call OA a "revolution" but say it's not a "radical" idea. What's not a radical step is to (1) solving severe problems harming you and your work by (2) taking advantage of existing technology.

Reader suggestion page

  • have one? use another format instead, such as my G+ blog? find some way to gather suggestions; describe and link to it here

Crowdsourced index

  • good index but we can improve it; first draft by MIT; published version extensively revised by me; but still a lot of room for improvement
  • large, so put it on another page; link to it from here; explain here and there that most HOAP wiki pages are editable only by project participants, but that the book index page is editable by any registered user