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For professors, there is no "University time". They don't clock in and out. The only times they are required to be on campus is for classes, office hours and me
by pacman128 10y ago
For professors, there is no "University time". They don't clock in and out. The only times they are required to be on campus is for classes, office hours and meetings. Otherwise they are free to do what they want, so forbidding them from reviewing wouldn't work.
Not counting reviewing for commercial publishers in the tenure process might have an effect on those seeking tenure.
- impendia 10y agoThis is not necessarily true. (I am a professor.) In general I would like to be able to refuse review requests for journals that rip off their (institutional) customers. Under the circumstances, I dare not do so, because these requests usually come from senior scientists in my field. However, if my university had such a policy (and it was conveniently explained on a web page I could link to) it would be very easy for me to back out of reviewing for these journals without taking the blame. Sure, some of my colleagues would continue to review for these journals, and the university would never know. But such a policy would give an out for individidual researchers who would like to support this cause.