The End of the Academic Journal as We Know It?
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Stephan Huller
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Re: The End of the Academic Journal as We Know It?
The article is from April 2012. The journals are still here so I guess this didn't work.
“The only sensible response to fragmented, slowly but randomly accruing evidence is radical open-mindedness. A single, simple explanation for a historical event is generally a failure of imagination, not a triumph of induction.” William H.C. Propp
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neilgodfrey
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Re: The End of the Academic Journal as We Know It?
The battle with publishers is ongoing. Subscription costs are outrageous. The latest ploy by publishers has been to try to co-opt the open access movement. Some of them now charge enormous fees -- as much as $4000 -- for authors to have their article made open access (generally paid by the university) in their journal while still charging subscription price for their journal. So they make a double killing.
The worst part is that they are attempting to present themselves as the only legitimate means to open access. They are pushing the line that any other form of open-access is second rate and only for poor quality research. In actual fact it is the journals with the highest reputation that have the highest retraction rates since they are the more likely to publish articles with popular appeal regardless of their research-quality.
Right from the beginning of the open access movement the mistake was made of allowing publishers to be part of the executive and policy making boards.
There are growing numbers of university produced open access journals but the battle is far from over.
The worst part is that they are attempting to present themselves as the only legitimate means to open access. They are pushing the line that any other form of open-access is second rate and only for poor quality research. In actual fact it is the journals with the highest reputation that have the highest retraction rates since they are the more likely to publish articles with popular appeal regardless of their research-quality.
Right from the beginning of the open access movement the mistake was made of allowing publishers to be part of the executive and policy making boards.
There are growing numbers of university produced open access journals but the battle is far from over.
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