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I never understood why university libraries are not making the journals themselves instead of having them done by companies and paying for the subscription. Eve
by patall 7y ago
I never understood why university libraries are not making the journals themselves instead of having them done by companies and paying for the subscription. Every university would have like 5 or 6 journals and pay everything for those and all the scientific articles would be free. I mean elife does it and it is great.
- geezerjay 7y agoSome universities require their researchers to publish and follow reference journals, the majority of which has been managed/hijacked by for-profit editors. As researchers are forced to meet publishing quotas, there's a negative feedback loop that forces research groups to have no alternative other than following and publishing on these journals.
- readme 7y agoIt wouldn't cost that much to just self publish the articles on the Internet. This is literally the whole reason for the Internet.
- trombonechamp 7y agoeLife doesn't do that anymore: https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/elife_author_instructions.html#fees https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/elife_author_instructi...
- Vinnl 7y agoThe problem is not starting new journals, the problem is having researchers submit their work there. And the problem with that is that the name/reputation of existing journals are currently used as a proxy to judge the quality of applicants for e.g. tenure tracks. As long as that's not changed, researchers are incentivised to submit their work to the traditional, "reputable" journals. (Disclaimer: I'm part of a project that aims to provide an alternative measure of quality.)
- Nemo_bis 7y agoThey do: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Library_published_journals http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Library_published_journals