On 04/23/2013 09:38 PM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program wrote:
Maybe someone should start an iJournals store with articles costing a fixed amount and come up with a formula to pay each contributing journal for content.
The whole pay-to-publish model is obsolete and should be discarded wholesale, since documents can be published for free on the web. Correspondingly, science should not be based on a pay-to-read model.
We need to break the parasitic feedback cycle in which researchers think they need to publish in conventional journals and publishers feed on this perceived need. I suggest that researchers take an "open science" pledge to only cite articles that are available on the web with free and open access.
If it isn't on the web -- with free and open access -- it doesn't exist. David
