Ernie Rogers makes an amusing and ironic point about this controversial new journal. If they make it available free online, then anybody can read it, and many people will. If on the other hand you want to read an article in a "respectable" journal then you may have a lot of trouble getting access to it.
Most journals are published by companies whose priority is to make money, not to make information available. I am sure that most publishers, given a choice between selling 100 subscriptions at $10,000 each or 10,000 subscriptions at $60 each would keep the price high. However I think that the people who publish the International Journal of Creation Research are mainly interested in getting the word out, and they are probably well funded, so I think it will not be difficult to get access to their journal -- online access, free library subscriptions, etc. That really gives them an advantage. Is there anything we can do about it? Bill Silvert ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:26 PM Subject: Re: Inaugural Call for Papers for the International Journal of Creation Research > There is the problem-- the GOOD information is published in the leading > journals. But, the only people that can read these publications are the > ones > that have subscriptions or have ready access to a research library. > > How can we break this information imbalance? I think the acceptance of > global warming as a real problem could have come years sooner if one or > two good > journals could have been accessible on the internet. > > Free exchange of knowledge and ideas is a wonderful, powerful thing. Who > knows, maybe from that viewpoint, the new journal is a good thing. But, > only > for a people that can think clearly and seek truth for themselves-- we > need > better access to the mainstream journals. > > Ernie Rogers
