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I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals like they've already successfully done with HHMI/eLife. It after you learn more about HHMI/eL
by untilHellbanned 10y ago
I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals like they've already successfully done with HHMI/eLife.
It after you learn more about HHMI/eLife, and want to challenge their motivations or the success of their journal and can tell me a better solution I'm all ears. I suspect you wont though. It's a pretty rock solid organization and journal. And I know it intimately as my former boss, Erin O'Shea, runs HHMI and she is about as noble and committed to promoting good science as you could ever hope someone would be.
- merraksh 10y agoYou said previously that "Science publishing needs to be coordinated by the major funding agencies.", a bit stronger than "I'm saying the funding agencies need to create their own journals". I'm not challenging anyone's success, and I'm in no position to say it's not a rock-solid organization and journal. I'm only saying that forcing that ALL journal be run by funding agencies exposes research to the risk of being controlled by those who fund it, lest they don't get published. Plus, while I don't doubt the dedication of your former boss, this is your opinion (hence inherently biased, though in good faith) and it is just one case you're mentioning. I won't bet this would happen all the time.
- untilHellbanned 10y agoIt's just one case but HHMI controls a endowment on par with NIH, $30B, and is about as influential an organization in the biomedical sciences as such exists in the world, so noting its success will be highly informative for other future attempts. I'm also not saying existing journals should go away or that this prevents any other initiatives. I'm merely saying the funding agencies should create their own journals.