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While we’re doing “as well as”s about Elsevier... I hate how soulless the journals feel. Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my rec
by mxcrossb 7y ago
While we’re doing “as well as”s about Elsevier...
I hate how soulless the journals feel. Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site. Where is the history? Where is the pride? Instead it looks just like any old rubbish journal, and any reader who stumbled upon it would think the same unless they read its history in Wikipedia.
- impendia 7y ago> I hate how soulless the journals feel. I certainly sympathize with you! That said, personally I'm happy about this development. Journals don't really fill a practical need anymore, and (as you point out) they increasingly don't fill an emotional, intangible one either. Perhaps then we will muster the effort to kick the entire industry to the curb.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoWhich journal?
- dmitriz 7y agoAll of them use the same process.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoI was asking about: > Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extremely ground breaking work in my field. But you wouldn’t get that impression from their elsevier site The OP is describing how all journals are treated the same, despite the the fact that they are essentially mini societies, some with more important histories than others
- dmitriz 7y agoOf course they won't do it as that would show the world the other 99% of their journals are in fact old rubbish. And they don't buy us drinks as we know... https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/104 https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/104