Another Dinosaur Industry

Story: Defending OpennessTotal Replies: 2
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beirwin

Sep 22, 2007
2:41 PM EDT
The Open Access movement (open access to scholarly journals and data) is up against the old fashioned business model of the scholarly journal industry which charges outrageous subscription fees (many scientific journals cost >$12,000 per year) and page charges for submitted papers (typically $100/page for electronic manuscripts and $150 for paper manuscripts). These days most papers and subsequent corrections to the manuscript are done electronically by the authors -- so most of the work is done by the authors, not the journal. The peer reviewers (referees) are volunteers and not paid. What's wrong with this picture?

Barbara
gus3

Sep 22, 2007
10:03 PM EDT
An excellent question. I suggest you read about a recent award to Groklaw's founder, Pamela Jones:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070921001839407

"Winds of change are set to blow..."—Pippin, "Morning Glow"
beirwin

Sep 23, 2007
2:04 PM EDT
Thanks for this. An inspiring article. PJ is a fitting recipient of this award.

Barbara

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