In effort to implement open access in academia, I …

In effort to implement open access in academia, I think there should be a strict criteria in publishing. I concur, there should be a balance between positive and negative when it relates to open access. The positive side is having the ability to disseminate information to the masses and exchange knowledge globally, but the downside is the quality, author fees, and cultural barriers. Some disciplines benefit from open access and are required to pay author's fees. In relation to some traditional journal publications, some published articles present poor quality and require an author's fee, so I guess they share a number of differences and similarities, so the objective would be balancing the two and streamlining more effectively.
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Comment on New Galaxy, New Horizons by A. Nelson

Reblogged this on Sirius Reflections and commented:

Our “make” for the week was to reflect on which communication medium has had the biggest impact on our world, and I’m sure no one is surprised that I’m jumping on the social media aka the internet bandwagon.
Full disclosure: I just finished Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction. An Unnatural History” (2014), which makes a compelling case for humans as the biggest change agents in the Earth’s long history. Check out Al Gore’s review of the book here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/the-sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert.html
Kolbert’s assessment of anthropogenic climate change is pretty sobering: We are definitely the cause and could be casualties of the sixth extinction. But she also suggests that our evolutionary history, particularly our communicative capacities and restlessness, have been our greatest strengths. I’ve got to think that the metamedium of the internet / “social media” will be an essential transformative tool going forward.
For further thoughts on how to assess change while it is happening, I’m re-posting these thoughts on McLuhan from an earlier New Media Seminar.

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