Who owns your thoughts?
Mike refers to Trey’s post about articles being for sale at Amazon.com. Of course we all know the Catch-22 of academic publishing—to develop professionally and get tenure, you must publish and are–to a large extent—subject to the guidelines of the publisher. If one tries to negotiate with the publisher, unless you are somebody big, you are not likely to retain copyright. As I’m learning from my slow nightly perusal of The Future of Ideas, copyright is not really the best way to promote the dissemination of innovative ideas.
This whole discussion reminds me of a discussion a year ago…Rethinking Academic Publishing…however, nothing really came of that. AECT, entrenched in the old, is not going to be quick to change its publishing ways…(wait a hot minute—Ed Tech R&D is available on Amazon for….$255.65!!!!! whereas through AECT is just $95 for non-members Something, my friends, *IS* rotten in Denmark).
But even if AECT wants to prositute its publications to Amazon, there are a number of peer-reviewed, free internet journals pertaining to educational technology. Here’s my del.cio.us collection…
