[euralex] Re: sharing lexicographic research results
- From: "Denise" <denisetamkin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <rlew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:58:14 +0100
I’d like to unsubscribed from this list asap, please.
Best wishes
Denise
From: Adam Kilgarriff
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:49 AM
To: rlew@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: euralex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [euralex] Re: sharing lexicographic research results
Robert and everyone,
Computational Linguistics (the journal) recently took the 'gold road' and now
no longer gets printed or has a commercial publisher, yet retains its status as
the top journal in the field. You just download (free) any papers you want to
read: in fact the ACL Anthology has ALL the papers from all main conferences
and workshops as well as the journal (for the last 25 years or so) accessible
in a well-organised, free and open online database. I'd be in favour of this
option.
Something similar already is already in train for recent EURALEX proceedings.
I think it's about time IJL (Int Jnl Lexicography) took this route too: perhaps
we can debate in Oslo?
Adam Kilgarriff
2011/6/23 Robert Lew <rlew@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dear EURALEX Subscribers,
The recent placing of the Euralex proceedings online is a good opportunity to
take a moment to
reflect more generally on how members of the lexicographic community can
efficiently share the
results of their research.
While we are all familiar and carefully follow the core lexicographic
journals and collections, it is
also true that a significant proportion of lexicographically relevant
publications appear in
journals and collections that are not primarily lexicographic in profile. It
isn´t always easy to find
out about such publications, and hunting them down can incur considerable
cost in both time
and money.
But this need not be so. The idea of open access is gaining support
throughout the academia
and beyond. In a nutshell, it is based on the premise that the cost of
state-supported research
is borne by the taxpayer, and so the taxpayer should be entitled to
unconstrained access to
results of such research. Researchers, in turn, have a right, if not an
obligation, to make the
fruits of their research publicly available.
Within this general philosophy, there are two approaches to open access, and
both are
applicable the lexicographic community. The more radical "gold road" to open
access bypasses
the traditional commercial publishing channels altogether, opting for open
access journals or
self-publication. In the context of lexicography, one might mention the
Kernerman Dictionary
News (http://kdictionaries.com/kdn.html) or the recent free e-book by Andreas
Welker
(http://www.let.unb.br/hawelker/dictionary_use_research.pdf).
The less radical "green road" to open access operates within the established
commercial
framework, but grants authors greater freedom than previously to disseminate
their work.
Today, most commercial publishers no longer object to authors placing their
articles and book
chapters (be it in pre-print or post-print form) online, so they can be
accessed by anyone
interested. My plea is for us to try to make greater use of this option
within the lexicographic
community.
Now, how can authors place their work online? First, it is useful to know
what the publisher´s
policy is. A quick check on RoMEO (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo) can often
help. If not, we
need to ask our publisher. Once we´ve cleared that, the traditional way has
been to place our
paper on our personal web page (I will use myself as an example:
http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~rlew/pub/Lew_publ.htm). But not everyone has the
time or the
skills to create and maintain a publications page. Fortunately, our
Department will sometimes
come to the rescue (http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/publications/biblio/author/Lew).
This is the old way.
Since recently, however, there are new opportunities in the form of
publication repositories,
which allow authors to place their work online without having to bother about
the technicalities,
usually by filling in a few obvious fields. The first thing to check would be
if your institution
maintains a repository. Many do (https://repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/jspui/simple-
search?query=author%3ALew&rpp=50). If yours doesn´t or you don´t have an
academic
affiliation, there are free repositories out there, such as SelectedWorks
(http://works.bepress.com/robert_lew/). Recently, Thomson Reuters (the people
behind Web of
Science) have provided a similar functionality
(http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-3198-2010).
So, if you think you have produced work that might be of interest to the
lexicographic
community, don´t keep it to yourself. It takes a lot of time and effort to do
research and write it
up. It only takes a minute or so to put it online for all to read and benefit
from!
--
Robert Lew
Professor of English Language, Linguistics and
Lexicography,
Reviews & Associate Editor, International Journal of
Lexicography,
School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University
Niepodleglosci 4
PL-61-874 Poznan
Poland
rlew@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~rlew/
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