On 5 May 2016 at 19:17, Chris Sherlock chris.sherlock79@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