Dear Yves and others,
Of course journals evolve, almost everything does: companies, political parties
etc. But no one would suggest not to set up a new company or poliitcal party
but rather wait for the existing ones to adopt what you think is necessary.
Just like it is normal for journals to
Heather your question is valid and his been raised and debated in many places.
But change does happen, albeit indeed at a very slow pace. Scholars are indeed
conservative in their work habit,s and maybe there's even a good side to that.
Without elaborating too much I think we may expect to see:
Dear Yves and others,
It is indeed naive not to reckon with hierarchies. But is is also wise to
consider that:
- views of hierarchies may differ over various cultures and languages areas
- hierarchies are based on images of what is or should be important or leading
- images of hierarchies are
Jeroen wrote:
What would be foolish however is to assess, judge, award, hire or fund
someone based on the lid of the silo that person has published in. I'm
convinced that in the long run academia will recognize that. You can
already see it happening in e.g. Germany, UK and the Netherlands.
Hello Jeroen
A last response
Maybe because I tend to magine cultivated readers instaead of ignorabimus, I
thought it was obvious to all that hierarchies differ, are based on images,
influence by power relations, disputed, etc. No need here to rehearse
postmodern rhetoric 101 to the readers of
In any given research speciatly who is not an individual but the community.
Just ask a bunch of physicists (random selection of 50 say) and ask them the
difference between, say, Physical Review and Il Nuovo Cimento or even Physics
Letters and Physical Review Letters (all publish essentially in
Let's talk about strategies. The OA movement is a collective effort to
draft a definition of Open Access, not for its own sake, but to identify
the best practices to distribute and preserve knowledge and sustain the
great conversation of Science. To that effect, this community has looked
for
Helllo
Journals do evolve: they already did by going on-line and -- for many --
paperless. Many are continuous already trough online first, etc. Most of the
elements on your list can be incorporated in the future without problems. I
will not go through it one by one for it would be tedious,
