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Work interests: research, editing, science communication
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Contact: email = researchcooperative-at-gmail-dot-com
Favourite publications: Various, and especially the open access versions of older journals with effective review systems
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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Work: ethnobotany, prehistory, museum curation
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
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
Publishers large and small
In recent years there have been two opposite yet complementary trends in academic publishing:
(1) Getting bigger - with the merging of long-established publishers into giant publishers or holding companies that manage the production of a huge range of books and journals.
(2) Getting smaller - a proliferation of small and specialist publishers that may represent a single research organisation, academic society, or project.
Some of the university-based publishers may be quite large, independent, and relatively durable. They are usually operating as not-for-profit organisations, and represent centres of gravity for academic publishing in general. See, for example, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and American Association of University Presses (AAUP).
A Big Bang?
There is something astronomical or cosmic about all this - as if black holes are forming while particles of information continue to move outwards with expansion of the information universe.
If this metaphor works, then we can say that information overload consists of both ever-increasing density and ever-increasing volume. This might explain why search (space and time travel), readability, and information quality have become increasingly important.
Thanks to search we can travel a million miles to a particular paragraph on a particular text published 1000 years ago, or 10 minutes ago - but we do not stay long if the landing place does not support our interest.
A major aim of the Research Cooperative is to help make research writing and reading more satisfying.
An academic friend of mine recently claimed that he keeps work books out of his home, because he does not want to surround himself with terrible writing.
As an active - and good - writer himself, he needs academic books, but he does not really like them.
"That's I sad story", I thought.
Perhaps the Research Cooperative can help to make academic writing easier to live with, or even better, a pleasure to read.
Back on Earth...
The University of Exeter hosts a directory of mainly English-language publishers called Books for Academics (includes A-Z and Subject listings). For authors, such directories can be good places to start when looking for a publisher.
Any author can also be a publisher, using free online systems for publishing. A major provider of such systems is the Public Knowledge Project.
You too can start a micro-journal, if you are keen. But if you want to survive and grow as a publisher, please come back to the Research Cooperative. Link up, join up, and look for the editors, translators, proofreaders, reviewers and others who can help make your papers and journals attractive and useful for readers.
(1) Getting bigger - with the merging of long-established publishers into giant publishers or holding companies that manage the production of a huge range of books and journals.
(2) Getting smaller - a proliferation of small and specialist publishers that may represent a single research organisation, academic society, or project.
Some of the university-based publishers may be quite large, independent, and relatively durable. They are usually operating as not-for-profit organisations, and represent centres of gravity for academic publishing in general. See, for example, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and American Association of University Presses (AAUP).
A Big Bang?
There is something astronomical or cosmic about all this - as if black holes are forming while particles of information continue to move outwards with expansion of the information universe.
If this metaphor works, then we can say that information overload consists of both ever-increasing density and ever-increasing volume. This might explain why search (space and time travel), readability, and information quality have become increasingly important.
Thanks to search we can travel a million miles to a particular paragraph on a particular text published 1000 years ago, or 10 minutes ago - but we do not stay long if the landing place does not support our interest.
A major aim of the Research Cooperative is to help make research writing and reading more satisfying.
An academic friend of mine recently claimed that he keeps work books out of his home, because he does not want to surround himself with terrible writing.
As an active - and good - writer himself, he needs academic books, but he does not really like them.
"That's I sad story", I thought.
Perhaps the Research Cooperative can help to make academic writing easier to live with, or even better, a pleasure to read.
Back on Earth...
The University of Exeter hosts a directory of mainly English-language publishers called Books for Academics (includes A-Z and Subject listings). For authors, such directories can be good places to start when looking for a publisher.
Any author can also be a publisher, using free online systems for publishing. A major provider of such systems is the Public Knowledge Project.
You too can start a micro-journal, if you are keen. But if you want to survive and grow as a publisher, please come back to the Research Cooperative. Link up, join up, and look for the editors, translators, proofreaders, reviewers and others who can help make your papers and journals attractive and useful for readers.
