[RNLD] Linguistics in the Pub in London (LIPIL) Tuesday 26th January 2015 at The Duke - Open Access and the future of Academic Publishing

[Lauren Gawne]

*Announcement: Linguistics in the Pub in London (LIPIL)** Tuesday 26th
January 2015** - Open Access and the future of Academic Publishing*


*Note: New year, new pub. We'll be at The Duke
<http://www.dukepub.co.uk/> for January LIPIL, and hopefully all future
events as well.*


In late 2015 the entire editorial team of Lingua
<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/lingua/> decamped
<http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22162> from the Elsevier-owned
journal and set up Glossa <http://www.glossa-journal.org/>, their own Open
Access journal. This move was motivated by a desire to run a journal where
the editorial board owned the title, authors retained copyright on their
own work, and that articles be free to read, with processing charges for
authors that are low and transparent. In unrelated events, but also around
the same time, Ethnologue announced
<http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/m-paul-lewis/ethnologue-launches-subscription-service#.Vo6wmvEUEvc>
that the online version will be placed behind a paywall for users who look
at more than 7 language/country pages a year from certain economically
developed countries. Ethnologue argue that they need to find a fair and
reasonable way to balance their operating costs for running the site, by
limiting free access. Both of these developments are symptomatic of major
changes that have been taking place over the last 4-5 years in the ways
academic research and publishing are carried out, and highlight concerns
for the future such as: what is open access? What does it mean for
researchers, and especially for PhD students and early career researchers?
Who pays for all this "free" stuff and who owns what? How can researchers
navigate this changing landscape?


LIPIL is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in
London and serves as an informal forum for the discussion of languages,
linguistics and related issues. We meet roughly once a month and discuss a
selected theme or issue. LIPIL is coordinated by Lauren Gawne (SOAS,
University of London) and is open to everyone who is interested. A summary
of the discussion is posted on the Endangered Languages and Cultures blog
<http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/>. You can also Tweet on the night with
the # <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LIPIL&src=typd>LIPIL
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LIPIL&src=typd> hashtag.


Background reading:

- The Research Councils UK (RCUK) Policy on Open Access
<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/policy/>
- The British Academy report <http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/Openaccess.cfm>
on open access
- A blog post from Colin Phillips <http://www.colinphillips.net/?p=3470> on
running the open access journal Frontiers in Language Sciences
<http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/psychology/section/language-sciences>


Date:             Tuesday 26th January 2016
Time:             6:00 - 8:00 pm

****New Year, New Venue****
Venue:           Downstairs room, *The Duke <http://www.dukepub.co.uk/>*

7 Roger Street, Bloomsbury
London, WC1N 2PB

ph: 020 7242 7230


Food and drinks available at the venue.

Contact Lauren Gawne with any questions: lg21 at soas.ac.uk
You can receive these announcements by signing up to the RNLD mailing list:
http://www.rnld.org/node/5 or visiting the LIPIL Facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/LIPIL-Linguistics-in-the-pub-in-London/437139756472400>
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