13 - Academia [Massive Teaching]
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0:01 - 0:06Academics tend to look down at issues of
copyright and ignore their implications. -
0:06 - 0:11As a consequence, as a community, they
make mistakes that can prove very costly. -
0:12 - 0:16The most obvious example of these mistakes
is with scientific publishing of papers. -
0:17 - 0:21Let's look at the submission process
for a paper in a mathematics journal. -
0:22 - 0:26After I write that paper, my submission
will follow the peer review process. -
0:26 - 0:30A couple of other mathematicians
will look at it to give a referee report, -
0:30 - 0:35and a journal editor will decide to accept it
or not, based on those reports. -
0:36 - 0:40Neither the referees or the journal editor
will be paid very much for this. -
0:41 - 0:44If my paper gets accepted, most of the
time, -
0:44 - 0:47I have to cede copyright to the journal,
I have to sign a contract. -
0:48 - 0:51Then the paper gets published,
university libraries around the world, -
0:51 - 0:53including my own,
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0:53 - 0:57that of the referees or the editor will
buy a copy of the journal. -
0:57 - 1:01I can't get it directly to them,
or all the other universities -
1:01 - 1:03because I don't own
the copyright anymore. -
1:04 - 1:07Because of this dominating position
of publishers -
1:07 - 1:12-- the owners of journals --
most subscriptions are very expensive -
1:12 - 1:16and charge a price that does not reflect
the value added by the publisher. -
1:17 - 1:20In fact, there is little work done
by the publisher in mathematics. -
1:20 - 1:24The state of the paper at the moment of
submission is very close, visually, -
1:24 - 1:26to the state at the moment of publication,
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1:26 - 1:31because we are already using similar tools
to edit formulas, as book copy editors. -
1:33 - 1:37So in the end, the mathematics community
pays publishers a lot of money -
1:37 - 1:39for buying back their own work.
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1:39 - 1:42It's a crazy system,
but one that has evolved -
1:42 - 1:44because academics
did not pay attention -
1:44 - 1:49and let their most prestigious brands,
the historically most prestigious journals -
1:49 - 1:52be bought by big
publishing companies. -
1:54 - 1:59[CC BY-SA
Paul Olivier Dehaye]
- Title:
- 13 - Academia [Massive Teaching]
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From Week 2 Lecture Videos of "Teaching goes massive: new skills required"
by Paul-Olivier Dehaye
See
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/pr8ZtLXODg
and
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2014/07/09/congrats-to-paul-olivier-dehaye-massiveteaching/ - Video Language:
- English
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