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Work interests: research, editing, science communication
Affiliation/website: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Preferred contact method: Any
Preferred contact language(s): English, German
Contact: email = researchcooperative-at-gmail-dot-com
Favourite publications: Various, and especially the open access versions of older journals with effective review systems
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Affiliations: 1996-present: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. 1995: Freelance editor, Kyoto. 1994: JSPS Research Visitor, Kyoto University, Kyoto. 1993: Research Visitor, Australian National University, Canberra. 1991: Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.1990: STA Fellow, National Institute for Ornamental Plants, Vegetables, and Tea (NIVOT), Ano, Japan
Contact: National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka, Japan 565-8511
Biographical: Established the Research Cooperative in 2001
Favourite Publications: Various
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) is briefly introduced in a Wikipedia entry here . The STM website and member list is here: https://www.stm-assoc.org/membership/our-members/
STM was first formally registered as a "foundation" in 1994. The members list is an interesting mix of big name publishers and obscure (though not necessarily minor) digital-era companies that support online publishing in various ways. Among the more than 100 members listed, only two can be identified by reference to the term "nonprofit": The American Chemical Society, and Knowledge Futures Group. Of course, there are many non-profit academic societies that are also publishers, but few are listed as STM members.
The Knowledge Futures Group ( https://knowledgefutures.org ) builds open source technology and collaborates with academic/scientific communities to build public digital infrastructure for "effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge futures".
The Knowledge Futures website is a treasure trove of articles on scientific publishing.
Here's a statement I like:
"It is the generation of scholarship that results from sustaining more people that will in turn further sustain scholarly publishing. We must reject the impulse for efficiency in favor of a desire to flourish ."
See:
Rudmann, D., Holbourne, K., & Gerakopoulou, E. (2021). Hire Everyone: Scholarly Publishing and Cooperative Sustainability. Commonplace , 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.72cb6467
There is a lot more to explore and learn at the STM website, and also at the Knowledge Futures Group!
https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.72cb6467 https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.72cb6467 https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.72cb6467
