On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Adi Kamdar wrote:
This email from a professor I've talked to—where I got the dumping ground quote—may help. Sure it's not 100% positive, but I believe that academic opinions about the realities of the scholarly world are to be taken into consideration much more than my own, or really anyone's who hasn't participated in the publishing process. Having strong opinions about open access in general (which I do... I'll support open access strongly till the end) is not the same as having opinions about the nature of the journals themselves:
Adi -- thanks for providing the full context! It really helps.One little nitpick: I think there's a weird branding thing, where us Free Culture people we like the Public Library of Science, the organization. And then the journals are all branded PLoS, no matter their reputation level, and so we're stuck in a weird position.
It'd be nice if we stopped referring to the journals as "PLoS Biology" and "PLoS One" but instead had some name each one.
That way, we can point to shining examples, and when critics point out (rightfully) that quality is varied, people won't mistakenly spread that black mark to other journals carrying the same brand.
-- Asheesh. -- Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
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