Piotr is misinformed. In History it is false that "The work of a
reviewer does not count towards tenure, or any other reviews; nobody
puts "I reviewed articles" on their CV." There are about 4000
universities in the country--I've taught at a bunch of them from high
to low (and my spouse has been the dean at several others) so I have
seen the high respect that administrators have for faculty who
achieve national visibility by being asked to review. At the U of
Illinois I and every other professor was asked to list the service
roles we played.
As for the authors--indeed a lot of authors are grad students or
underemployed PhDs who publish because that's the path to getting an
academic job. They are taught how to do this in graduate seminars
led by very highly paid professors. Making them pay $1000 to $5000
so their article is open access is a very unwise way to promote their
scholarship. (Few if any prestigious history journals are now open
access; this seems more an issue in sciences.)
As for the problem of journal access in poor countries. Well that is
indeed a problem, but surely this loose talk about American taxpayers
suggests that ALL the access outside the US to American funded
research should be blocked . Happily that won't happen. The problem
is perhaps counterbalanced by the amazingly high # of foreign
students who get a free ride from American graduate schools.
Richard Jensen
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