That poilcy doesn't work in other languages. Try searching for "Hillary Clinton kri" in Germany and one of the suggestions is "Hillary Clinton Kriegsverbrecher" (war criminal). Same in Norwegian with general secretary of NATO: "Jens Stoltenberg kri" gives both "krigsforbryter" (war criminal) and "kriminell" (criminal).
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
Check out the list of reasons for why certain publishers are on the list: http://scholarlyoa.com/other-p...
They include things such as:
"Very few editorial board members from the west despite claiming to be International'"
"Much of the authors’ guidelines is copied from other sites."
"The journal has a very broad coverage to attract more author fees, and there are already many journals with a similar coverage — there is no authentic need for this new journal. It’s just being done for the profit."
"There no indication of the journal’s digital preservation policies."
Just to mention a few.
Not by Science Mag, but by others. Had you included the link to your cited text this would have become apparent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
Also I have sent my draft in to a journal on Mr. Beall's list and received a reasonable, although not super-informed response, so I let the text be published in that journal. Of course expensive western journals and editorials would prefer if everyone only accepted them and was willing to continue financing their own scheme.
If one open access journal has published crap, it is proof that this particular journal doesn't have the right procedures in place, not that this is the case for all open access journals, or even all open access journals from India or from the third world.
It seems like an extension of cultural and economic imperialism to insist on first world journals being the only thing valid.
Venezuelan government's response: The telephone company is to blame. This happened in several Latin american countries.
http://www.telesurtv.net/artic...
Makes sense if you think about it: Why would one want to only censor Twitter images?
Will Slashdot come out openly in favor of a coup d'etat in a European country if they have temporarily internet connection problems?
You should check out BookJS ( http://sourcefabric.github.io/BookJS/ ). It's made so you can design book pages in the Chrome browser and create PDFs using the browser's print-to-pdf function. it can handle footnotes, floats, margin notes, etc. . It's being used in Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.org/ ) and Booktype ( http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ ).
However, going on with Fidus writer, I am less sure that book editing can be directly done woith HTML, without a large amount of Javascript, basically because the contenteditable feature is so broken in most browsers. I have filed tickets with Chrome and Firefox.
You are welcome to program that part as well. One main problem is that firefox is even more broken than Chrome/Safari when it comes to many editing issues.
We use a django app for that. wat you can do is go to/admin, log in and create a facebook app in which you set the key and secret to an arbitrary value. that takes away the error message.
Please go ahead and file that bug report to those who created the django app. https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
I was filing it previously and was told to forget about it.
You are right, I never did that. I expected there to be tools to handle this type of situation. I looked... and found nothing quite satisfying. Which is why Fidus Writer was started.
Look, there currently is no working solution.People in the humanities write in Word. But what if they want to publish? Well, word print out looks really crap. So instead someone is hired locally (or 200 people in China) to do the conversion to some format that can be converted into a nice-looking PDF.
Yes, my contribution is this very program.
The reformatting is a LOT of work. If people use MsWord, Libreoffice or alike, it cannot be done automatically.
The problem is that mailing docs around is a nihtmar when dealing with more than two people. "Who has the last version?" I tried a combination of Lyx and Dropbox, but also that was borderline too difficult and I needed to perform te installation myself for each person participating in it.
One only uss Latex to create a PDF with it. The point is that Latex makes really beautiful PDFs. word, Libreoffice, etc. make PDFs, but they are not really nice looking enough to make a book of them.
because this is not "a short time". I have had the job of converting Word to Latex for an anthropology journal in Norway before. it took months and months as te original authors found errors and would send me emails wit instructions such as "on page 218, in the third paragraph, please add a comma after the word 'fish'." I would get tons and tons of these emails every day. a cmplete nightmare.
not really.Booktype cannot do Latex, nor citation management, nor formulas, nor footnotes nor any of the other things academics need.
But Booktype has recently obtained better looking PDF output. I programmed the javascript part of that. Check http://bookjs.net/
well, because advisors don't make comments in pen any more, if you are not a native English speaker you are regularly asked to get others to check the text, etc.
If you want to publish as a book, you need to collaborate even more.
The problem with Google Docs Writer is that it's not a semantic editor.
If someone would port Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.com/ ) to use Google Drive as the backend for storage, you would have all of it right there on the web.
it looks great -- for programmers. "normal peopel" will be put off because they have to write code and cannot see it WYSIWYG. That's another reason why we started http://www.fiduswriter.com/
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That poilcy doesn't work in other languages. Try searching for "Hillary Clinton kri" in Germany and one of the suggestions is "Hillary Clinton Kriegsverbrecher" (war criminal). Same in Norwegian with general secretary of NATO: "Jens Stoltenberg kri" gives both "krigsforbryter" (war criminal) and "kriminell" (criminal).
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
Apparently that is an urban myth. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M...
Check out the list of reasons for why certain publishers are on the list: http://scholarlyoa.com/other-p... They include things such as: "Very few editorial board members from the west despite claiming to be International'" "Much of the authors’ guidelines is copied from other sites." "The journal has a very broad coverage to attract more author fees, and there are already many journals with a similar coverage — there is no authentic need for this new journal. It’s just being done for the profit." "There no indication of the journal’s digital preservation policies." Just to mention a few.
Not by Science Mag, but by others. Had you included the link to your cited text this would have become apparent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... Also I have sent my draft in to a journal on Mr. Beall's list and received a reasonable, although not super-informed response, so I let the text be published in that journal. Of course expensive western journals and editorials would prefer if everyone only accepted them and was willing to continue financing their own scheme. If one open access journal has published crap, it is proof that this particular journal doesn't have the right procedures in place, not that this is the case for all open access journals, or even all open access journals from India or from the third world. It seems like an extension of cultural and economic imperialism to insist on first world journals being the only thing valid.
Venezuelan government's response: The telephone company is to blame. This happened in several Latin american countries. http://www.telesurtv.net/artic... Makes sense if you think about it: Why would one want to only censor Twitter images? Will Slashdot come out openly in favor of a coup d'etat in a European country if they have temporarily internet connection problems?
You should check out BookJS ( http://sourcefabric.github.io/BookJS/ ). It's made so you can design book pages in the Chrome browser and create PDFs using the browser's print-to-pdf function. it can handle footnotes, floats, margin notes, etc. . It's being used in Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.org/ ) and Booktype ( http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ ). However, going on with Fidus writer, I am less sure that book editing can be directly done woith HTML, without a large amount of Javascript, basically because the contenteditable feature is so broken in most browsers. I have filed tickets with Chrome and Firefox.
You are welcome to program that part as well. One main problem is that firefox is even more broken than Chrome/Safari when it comes to many editing issues.
and yes, I will look into fixing my h key. ;)
We use a django app for that. wat you can do is go to /admin, log in and create a facebook app in which you set the key and secret to an arbitrary value. that takes away the error message.
Please go ahead and file that bug report to those who created the django app. https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
I was filing it previously and was told to forget about it.
You are right, I never did that. I expected there to be tools to handle this type of situation. I looked... and found nothing quite satisfying. Which is why Fidus Writer was started.
As the implementation of MathML in browsers currently isn't good enough for everyday use we use mathjax for that.
If it makes you feel better - I am an atheist. I put the Book of Mormon there as a joke. I recognize it is a very particular kind of humor.
Look, there currently is no working solution.People in the humanities write in Word. But what if they want to publish? Well, word print out looks really crap. So instead someone is hired locally (or 200 people in China) to do the conversion to some format that can be converted into a nice-looking PDF.
Yes, my contribution is this very program. The reformatting is a LOT of work. If people use MsWord, Libreoffice or alike, it cannot be done automatically.
The problem is that mailing docs around is a nihtmar when dealing with more than two people. "Who has the last version?" I tried a combination of Lyx and Dropbox, but also that was borderline too difficult and I needed to perform te installation myself for each person participating in it.
My h-key has a problem. I don't think that will influence much how people will see Fidus Writer. But thanks for the pointer!
The trouble is that non-geeks are not able to write or edit latex documents.
Yes, problem is that normal people cannot write latex code and will not ever be able to read it.
One only uss Latex to create a PDF with it. The point is that Latex makes really beautiful PDFs. word, Libreoffice, etc. make PDFs, but they are not really nice looking enough to make a book of them.
because this is not "a short time". I have had the job of converting Word to Latex for an anthropology journal in Norway before. it took months and months as te original authors found errors and would send me emails wit instructions such as "on page 218, in the third paragraph, please add a comma after the word 'fish'." I would get tons and tons of these emails every day. a cmplete nightmare.
not really.Booktype cannot do Latex, nor citation management, nor formulas, nor footnotes nor any of the other things academics need. But Booktype has recently obtained better looking PDF output. I programmed the javascript part of that. Check http://bookjs.net/
well, because advisors don't make comments in pen any more, if you are not a native English speaker you are regularly asked to get others to check the text, etc. If you want to publish as a book, you need to collaborate even more.
The problem with Google Docs Writer is that it's not a semantic editor. If someone would port Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.com/ ) to use Google Drive as the backend for storage, you would have all of it right there on the web.
hey, yes math should be typeable directly in (la)tex code. Mathjax takes care of that bit. Bibtex interoperability is built in. Zotero will be next.
it looks great -- for programmers. "normal peopel" will be put off because they have to write code and cannot see it WYSIWYG. That's another reason why we started http://www.fiduswriter.com/