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Project Free Our Knowledge aims to organise collective action in support of open and reproducible research practices. This repository is used to design new campaigns (using the issues feature) and to build the website (www.freeourknowledge.org).
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New pledge launched next year on FOK to increase non-profit publishing in cognitive science [ADVICE NEEDED] #54

Open WimPouw opened 1 year ago

WimPouw commented 1 year ago

Dear FOK Community,

A group of cognitive scientists are planning to launch a new pledge on FOK. We intend to launch it around end of January, and would like to gather any advice on how to improve it, or how to promote it.

For a draft of the pledge, please follow the lin below (please dont share with people, from the dark side; but feel free to share with like-minded people). For your convenience, here is the main text of the pledge.

Main text of the pledge

I PLEDGE... ...as a researcher who works in, or relates to the field of cognitive science, that the excessive profiteering by third parties in the current publishing system in academia is highly problematic (for a problem analysis see [here]), and therefore I am willing to declare that:

[checkbox I] will publish 1 of my first-authored papers with an open access journal that does not charge article processing fees (i.e., under a diamond open access agreement) within 5 years if 1,000 other cognitive science researchers pledge to do the same checkbox

[checkbox II] Additionally, for 5 years I will publish at least 20% of my first-authored papers in an open access journal that does not charge article processing fees (i.e., under a diamond open access agreement) if 10,000 other cognitive science researchers pledge to do the same

If and only if the following conditions are met: That it is ensured that my pledge will not be made public without my permission if the pledge does not activate. When the pledge activates my pledge becomes automatically public, and I will be notified at this point.

Full pledge (temporary site)

https://wimpouw.com/pledge.html

Final remarks

We are now in a phase, where we are reaching out to leaders of the field to publicly sign it already before we launch it. We also are reaching out to institutions/universities and funding agencies the coming weeks. We plan to add new organizations and other public support continuously. Any ideas to increase the success of this pledge, or if you want to help out, please reach out!

Thank you very much, Wim Pouw, on behalf of group of cognitive scientists and FOK

CooperSmout commented 1 year ago

Awesome work Wim and colleagues, excited to see where this goes!