Title: Patience Please
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Patience Please

 *  Plugin Author [s1r0n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s1r0n/)
 * (@s1r0n)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/patience-please/)
 * Hey everybody. This is just to let you all know this is my first attempt at WordPress
   coding so please be patient. I’ll try and be as responsive as possible but keep
   in mind i”m learning as I go.
 * The basic goal of this plugin is to facilitate independent scholarly publication.
   This is publication that circumvents the traditional press and allows the scholar
   themselves to address the field directly. Google scholar is a great way to facilitate
   that since Google Scholar indexes scholarly output regardless of its associated
   with a journal. This gives scholars a unique opportunity to get their work out
   there quickly, efficiently, and without having to worry about the gatekeepers
   at the temple of the scholarly press. I am aware of the need to maintain quality
   control, and I understand peer review is part of that process, but at the same
   peer review slows scientific discovery down, and the commercial presses lock 
   up scholarly output behind a pay-per-view wall that ensures only academics, and
   students paying high post-secondary fees, get access to academic research. This
   is an unfortunate situation and one that this plugin is designed to remedy. With
   this plugin scholars can setup their own WordPress site easily, and then use 
   their WordPress installation to put out their scholarship to the world. The hope
   here is that scholars will take this opportunity and use it NOT to duplicate 
   functions already handled well by the traditional scholarly presses (i.e. peer
   review), but to take the opportunity and not only speed up scholarly communication,
   but bring scholarship directly to the world.
 * If you want a model of what is possible here consider The Socjourn ([http://www.sociology.org](http://www.sociology.org)).
   This journal publishes scholarly research, and research commentary, aimed not
   at other scholars, but at the general population. Academic jargon is limited 
   and the goal is open and grounded communication. Academics take their own research,
   or the research of others, and write about it in a way that speaks to relevant
   social issues (like for example child abuse, see link below). Write a good scholarly
   article, get this article indexed by Google Scholar, and have a greater IMPACT
   not only scholarly research (by speeding up dissemination of your thoughts), 
   but on society as a whole.
 * Anyway, that’s the purpose. Feedback is welcome but patience is a virtue. Also,
   if you are a scholar and you want to take up the challenge, make sure you spend
   some time practicing your communication skills. The kind of writing you do for
   a peer reviewed scholarly journal in your own discipline is not the kind of writing
   you should do for a blog designed to disseminate your thinking to a wider academic,
   or general audience. See this article on [how to write badly](http://www.sociology.org/writing-tips/write-badly).
 * [http://www.sociology.org/columnists/michael-sosteric/sociology-versus-psychology-the-social-context-of-psychological-pathology-and-child-abuse](http://www.sociology.org/columnists/michael-sosteric/sociology-versus-psychology-the-social-context-of-psychological-pathology-and-child-abuse)
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-scholar/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-scholar/)

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 *  [immanence](https://wordpress.org/support/users/immanence/)
 * (@immanence)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/patience-please/#post-4194046)
 * Good luck with this! I’m looking forward to the development of this plugin, and
   support the philosophy behind it 100%!
 *  [surrogatekey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surrogatekey/)
 * (@surrogatekey)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/patience-please/#post-4194073)
 * This is just what I was looking for, thanks! I’m just trying it out on a test
   site, and it looks great. Ran into a couple of hiccups, but it still seems usable.
   I will see if I can figure out what’s causing the issues and let you know if 
   I come up with anything that might be helpful. Congratulations on taking the 
   plunge into writing wp plugins 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [surrogatekey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surrogatekey/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/patience-please/#post-4194073)
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