On 5 May 2016 at 19:17, Chris Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: >> If a free online business model can figure out how to fund copy-editing and >> automatic standards enforcement (for example, people make awful bibtex >> entries, including Springer's auto-generation system), and a university >> institution willing to host the journal's archives, the entire utility of a >> publisher disappears > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637251 > <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11637251> > > In all seriousness, what would stop the WMF from attempting to setup journals? >
The Directory of Open Access Journals currently lists 11,649 journals[1]. While some of those are junk[2] the world is currently in no way short of open access journals. The only way a wikimedia backed open access journal would make sense is if either we aimed for a really high quality journal (probably by throwing money at the problem) or a journal that targets areas that wikipedians have identified as being hard to find citations (and this month's edition of citation needed features a number of papers on the initial sales price of games consoles and vessels used in local ferry services) [1]https://doaj.org/ [2]https://doaj.org/article/ebed893bfc3748d58695b2851c8270e9 -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
