[LINK] Open publishing strike - editorial board resigns

[Jan Whitaker]

This is an interesting take on the tensions between commercial 
scientific/research journals (the words in the story, which is a clue 
in itself) and the value of sharing knowledge/research findings in a 
timely fashion. Nice to see Colin Steele quoted. Colin, are you still on Link?

http://theconversation.com/journal-editorial-board-quits-over-open-access-principle-13086

This model is broken. Authors should never pay to have their work 
published. It's a cardinal rule of creative effort. Anything that 
smacks of charging, in the fiction world at least, is vanity 
publishing. In the scholarly world, the publishers are getting free 
editorial peer review as well, and then charging the universities a 
second fee to access the information. Solution: cut out the 
middle-man and have scholarly associations do the peer review and 
publish direct. It's time to ask the serious question of what value 
the Taylor and Francis's of the world bring to the table any more.

The comments are also worth a read where Taylor and Francis Australia 
tries to talk their way out of the problem of their own making. It's 
full of TLAs and jargon that only they would understand -- spin. John 
Harrison nails it.

Jan


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