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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 2d

There's no right answer here in my opinion because I think authorship is a confused muddle, but given the current system, let's say I recognize an opportunity to make a research project happen by dint of me contributing a whole lot of labor, but I then don't have time to contribute anything else.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 2d

About intellectual contribution being a criterion, It's almost elitist by definition, but focusing on that probably confuses the debate.
So, to start afresh, I'd be interested to know why you think (if you do) that only people who make intellectual contributions should be on the by-line.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to know you agree with this one! Always interested to hear peoples' thoughts.

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CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access @craft-oa.bsky.social · 3d

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 9d

And there are many scholarly communities using it that didn't need liberation because they were never captured. Notably, ironically, those in low and middle-income countries.

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 9d

PKP is behind Open Journal Systems, the most widely-used free open source journal management system, which can be used to liberate us from Elsevier and all the rest of the profiteers! #openaccess

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The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 4

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors'

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An event card showing the details of the event that are given in the post. It also says 'An OABN webinar with the support of the ERC Executive Agency'.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 9d

Was great to get some answers to this, from ChatGPT (not kidding).
Australians are different; they never say "we're not here to fuck spiders, as it were" nor "he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, as it were"

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 13d

Seems that in some fields that is now semi-formally assumed to be the corresponding author. Of course, that's often the most senior author, who is most likely to be dead or retired, haha, by the time an investigation begins.

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 13d

That's a good point. Going back to the original 1997 Rennie contributorship proposal, he and others were already saying that one/some authors should be declared "guarantor" and take the most responsibility. Do you have another idea?

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