[LFG] Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is the new Lingua

[Koenraad De Smedt]

Here is a related article in the Chronical of HE

http://chronicle.com/article/What-a-Mass-Exodus-at-a/234066

Koenraad

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 10:27, Stefan Müller <Stefan.Mueller at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> Just learned that the editors have contracts runing for half a year and
> that Lingua has to phase out. So I will continue to do reviewing till
> Mai 2016 and it would be helpful if others did this too.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> 	Stefan
> 
> Am 28.10.15 um 09:37 schrieb Stefan Müller:
>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> You may already have heard of Ling-OA, an initiative to convert journals
>> to Open Access.
>> 
>> http://www.lingoa.eu/faqs/faq-english/
>> 
>> Today I have heard of a quite dramatic change for our field: all 6
>> editors of Lingua resigned and all 31 members of the editorial board
>> resigned as well.
>> 
>> They will start a new journal called: Glossa: a journal of general
>> linguistics
>> 
>> The new journal will work under the conditions of fair OA:
>> 
>> 
>> -   The editorial board owns the title of the journals.
>> 
>> -   The author owns the copyright of his articles, and a CC-BY license
>> applies.
>> 
>> -   All articles are published in Full Open Access (no subscriptions, no
>> ‘double dipping’).
>> 
>> -   Article processing charges (APCs) are low (around 400 euros),
>>    transparent, and in proportion to the work carried out by the
>> publisher.
>> 
>> http://www.lingoa.eu/about/aims/
>> 
>> As for the new journal, APCs are covered by the Dutch government and
>> later by Open Lib Humanities.
>> 
>> I think transfering the journal to Fair OA is a very good move into the
>> right direction towards scholarly owned journals and book outlets.
>> 
>> Please support this transition by
>> 
>> 1) not submitting to the old Lingua any longer
>> 
>> 2) consider retracting articles if you already submitted
>> 
>> 3) do not do any reviewing for Lingua
>> 
>> 4) do not accept any invitations to work for Elsevier on the board of
>> Lingua or as an editor
>> 
>> You may be flattered by the offer of Elsevier but think twice: The good
>> reputation of the journal was build by researchers like us. This
>> reputation is now transfered to the new journal. If you work for
>> Elsevier you are basically doing harm to your community and you will not
>> profit from the reputation of the journal since it is gone now and
>> Elsevier as such has a rather bad reputation because of the ways in
>> which they act commercially and in terms of copyrights.
>> 
>> Being on a newly established board of a journal that remains after the
>> former board moved to Ling-OA will not look good on any CV. I would not
>> hire anybody who did something like that and I would object in any
>> search committee I am involved in.
>> 
>> Summary: Great news, let us support the new Lingua (Glossa: a journal of
>> general linguistics) at Ling-OA.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>>        Stefan
>> 
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