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What is stopping somebody from not publishing in a journal and simply putting up a PDF on their own website? Otherwise, if you ran a Journal, how would you set

• Vinnl 9y ago
  > What is stopping somebody from not publishing in a journal and simply putting up a PDF on their own website? That they want to have a job in research, which are really, really scarce. I explained this in more detail at https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-can-make-or-break-academic-careers-704e00ae070a https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca... > Otherwise, if you ran a Journal, how would you setup a free system to curate high-impact research? Or alternatively, how much would you charge to run such a journal? If you run a journal, you're most likely one of the big publishers that is profiting heavily from the status quo. Much of the actual academic work (finding reviewers, etc.) is done by actual academics (mostly for free), but the rest of it, including promoting it to potential readers, is done by the publishers. (There have been some success stories of editorial boards leaving the publishers' journals to start their own, e.g. Glossa (formerly Lingua), but those are few and far between.
  • ksk 9y ago
    Thanks for your comment. I enjoyed reading your article.