Thanx very much to Heather for drawing attention to Odlyzko's (1995) paper,
which I hadn't seen before. It was most interesting to be returned to the
days when all those without access to Mosaic had to do was to write a few
commands to get an ftp file sent to them!
It was also interesting to
The discussion about traditional and predatory journals seems to be missing a
key point: why are we still publishing journals anyways? The format was
developed in the 1600's and was the state of the art technology for
dissemination of scholarly work at the time. Today we have the World Wide
This would seem to me the more naïve idea of all: the hierarchy of the
legitimate journals . Legitimate according to who?
El 5/4/2015 1:21, Gingras, Yves gingras.y...@uqam.ca escribió:
Hello all
In all this debate about what are obviously predatory journals that just
want to make fast money
Dear Yves and others,
Of course we could discuss what “a hierarchy of legitimate journals” is and
whether one should base submission decisions on such hierarchies. But that
would be another thread I think. What concerns me here is your question on the
need for more journals. Overall I would
