On 5 May 2016 at 19:17, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If a free
online business model can figure out how to fund copy-editing and automatic standards
enforcement (for example, people make awful bibtex entries, including Springer's
auto-generation system), and a university institution willing to host the journal's
archives, the entire utility of a publisher disappears
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637251
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637251>
In all seriousness, what would stop the WMF from attempting to setup journals?
The Directory of Open Access Journals currently lists 11,649
journals[1]. While some of those are junk[2] the world is currently in
no way short of open access journals.
The only way a wikimedia backed open access journal would make sense
is if either we aimed for a really high quality journal (probably by
throwing money at the problem) or a journal that targets areas that
wikipedians have identified as being hard to find citations (and this
month's edition of citation needed features a number of papers on the
initial sales price of games consoles and vessels used in local ferry
services)
[
1]https://doaj.org/
[
2]https://doaj.org/article/ebed893bfc3748d58695b2851c8270e9
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geni