That "dumping ground" quote made me lol. Glad you take inspiration from PLoS, Parker, I'm there with you. Adi, did that feedback go through some reputable, peer-reviewed process? ;)
PLoS One may not be the most prestigious journal but old feedback from some UC librarians suggested to me it is a solid journal. In fact I contend that the PLoS journals arent even that radical (read: scary, non-scientific)! It is the same peer-review model, same closed up scientific process, same busted reputation engine. However, these are big issues and PLoS need not necessarily take them on. I appreciate PLoS for what they have done to reformulate access, revenue, and business models for publishing science research. This may be what makes them worthy of recognition. - Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "Parker Higgins" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 11:49 pm Subject: [FC-discuss] Open Source Projects featured on TreeHugger To: "Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular" <[email protected]> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> wrote > > > It's interesting how they put PLoS ONE in there, though, which most > researchers I've talked to tend to regard as the "dumping ground for bad > science," or simply an outlet for scientific publications that researchers > know won't make it into more esteemed journals. > > Yikes. I wonder if that's grounded in fact or just FUD? Hearing about PLoS's (partially successful) struggle to get scientists to use open access journals was actually what first got me passionate about free culture issues; that people would opt for the "esteemed" journals instead of the newer but more accessible one in cases that were literally life or death for many people struck me as something that I needed to get involved with. I can't speak too much to PLoS ONE's credibility, but it is a peer reviewed journal and not quite a "dumping ground." Some of PLoS's other journals, like PLoS Biology, are more obviously successful: in 2007 that journal had the highest impact factor of any ISI-categorized "Biology" journal. > -Adi > > Parker -- parker higgins berlin, germany http://parkerhiggins.net gmail / gchat: [email protected] twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker skype: thisisparker please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary platform
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