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

[Stefan Müller]

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
>