Sorry Dario, you need to look at it from the
editors' and scholarls
point of view and not say you are thinking of the "taxpayer"--journal
prices have gone up but taxes have gone down, so that's not a real
issue. I've been on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals
& all would be in real trouble on free access. Who would pay their
bills? Who would pay their grad students? Already they are
threatened by declining university budgets and losing the subscription
base would be a terrific blow. "Access for the "taxpayers" /
"taxpayers pay twice" is a rhetorical tool designed to defund
science. It is the professors and graduate students who need the
journals and who would be hurt when they close.
Richard Jensen
At 11:45 PM 5/20/2012, you wrote:
With all due respect, your statement is simply
false and
ill-informed. The NIH as well as a growing number of large research
institutions and funding bodies worldwide has been mandating open
access for 4 years and I'd like to see any evidence that this is
"destroying peer review". There are many sustainable open access
models that publishers and scholarly societies are adopting, the only
thing this campaign is threatening is the taxpayer's obligation to
pay twice for research they have already funded.
Best,
Dario
On May 20, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Richard Jensen wrote:
that's a bad idea--it will destroy the
financial base of thousands
of journals and throw the whole science community into
turmoil for
years as the main quality control system --peer review--is destroyed.
The alternative of direct government subsidy of journals is even
more dangerous,
as it will give politicians control over what gets
published.
Richard Jensen
At 11:19 PM 5/20/2012, you wrote:
> (apologies for cross-posting)
>
> A petition you should care about: require free access over the
Internet to
journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
>
>
http://access2research.org/
>
http://wh.gov/6TH
>
> 25,000 signatures in 30 days (by June 19) gets an official
response from the
White House.
Dario
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