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I feel like one step for fixing this would be a pledge by hiring committee members. Say the university of X thinks publisher Y is a burden on the scientific com
by kriro 10y ago
I feel like one step for fixing this would be a pledge by hiring committee members. Say the university of X thinks publisher Y is a burden on the scientific community and as such will ignore everything the applicants have published there (or even weight it negatively). It's never going to happen but these issues need to be attacked from all angles that affect the careers of scientists. Employers, publishers, peers and students.
- Intermernet 10y agoI honestly think that it would only take one or two high class universities to boycott the large publishing corps to bring the whole house of cards down. If MIT and Stanford (for instance) made it a policy to publicly recommend and prefer arxiv etc then it would set a trend that would be emulated by the rest of the universities. It takes some high profile researchers in each field to start the ball rolling. They are the people whose work others will track down wherever it's published.
- impendia 10y agoI strongly disagree. You can't penalize young scientists for playing the game; they pretty much have to. I believe it is much more appropriate to put pressure on senior, tenured scientists to publish their work in "ethical" venues. It's more challenging to pick a fight with people in positions of power, and of course they can simply ignore you, but their careers aren't going to suffer nearly as much if they avoid some of the big-name journals.