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yes you could launch a journal like that, and given enough funds -- as in plenty of millions -- and a strong network of people involved it might even become mod
by marsa 5y ago
yes you could launch a journal like that, and given enough funds -- as in plenty of millions -- and a strong network of people involved it might even become moderately successful, but the workflow wouldn't become widely adopted (=no change on a significant level).
existing subscription journals would have no incentive to allow republication at all, even less so with a measly 1 month embargo period.
citations and high IFs don't depend on permissive licensing and openness -- they are more easily reached via established subscription publishers who already have the supply chain to serve their content to thousands of subscribing organizations and millions of academics.
i mean OA/OS itself is a good example here. it's been an ongoing project for some 20 years, and granted there has been change, it's also been ample time for the industry to adapt to and limit this change. so now you have read-and-publish agreements (=more expensive subscriptions basically), transformative agreements (=we'll go full OA once you've lined our pockets enough), etc.
meanwhile there are plenty of journals, initiatives, manifestos, platforms -- PLoS stable of journals, other publishers, all the various *rxivs popping up, COS and OSF -- advocating hard for OA/OS but they're ultimately limited to carving a niche for themselves with little effect on the wider system itself.
and achieving even that little effect has involved an ungodly amount of policy changes and introducing mandates that favor this one particular mode of communication.
so yeah i don't think this will catch on either, not in my lifetime at least.
- csdvrx 5y ago> they're ultimately limited to carving a niche for themselves with little effect on the wider system itself. You have already noticed some of the changes, but you're not thinking long term enough. Look at what's happening in universities, not for existing researchers, as they will eventually be replaced. I must admit I'm a bit disconnected as I left a couple of years before COVID, but already back then, students do their lit review using google. If something is not easily accessible, unless it's a must-known paper, they won't bother with even scihub (and I'm talking about scihub because even if the university provides access to most journals, most people don't bother with that as it requires being on campus or using a weird VPN) In classes, there're a lot exercises based on replication: try to get the same results as this or that to learn about this method. For now, it's mostly done with books, but a new trend is using published datasets to level up. I'm not saying you aren't partially right, but things are changing fast!