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Academic publishing is a hostage of a commercial industry. You've no doubt read a few million and a half thinkpieces and committments about how:
\r\n\r\nPeople have been writing about this stuff for literally decades. The Open Access movement isn't much younger than the Web itself. And yet.
\r\n\r\nDon't worry, people aren't only writing about it. People are building things too. Things like:
\r\n\r\nThere are so many different angles to approach this from, and so many things that need to change in sync. We need:
\r\n\r\nThere are many pieces to the puzzle. There are many people working on these pieces, or components which could be part of a piece. Maybe not even in the context of improving academic publishing.
\r\n\r\nAre you one of them? If you count yourself amongst the academic community and you're frustrated by the state of publishing - or working to change it - or just working on something that could be applied to improve it - there are some things you can do right now to help roll this ball...
\r\n\r\nThen: show up in Portoroz, Slovenia, at the end of May and talk about it with other people who care.
\r\n\r\nThe big picture is big. We need lots of people with broad and niche expertise to address this properly. No one research group, project, or even discipline (and certainly not individual person) is going to be able to shift this alone.
\r\n\r\nThe first workshop for enabling decentralised scholarly communication, is co-located with the 2017 Extended Semantic Web Conference (but by no means limited to SemWeb people, or even computer scientists).
\r\n\r\nWe're eschewing the formal conference proceedings and encouraging you all to publish contributions online, at a domain of your choice (but ideally one you trust or control). Specifically, write about (any or all of):
\r\n\r\nSee you in Portoroz!
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