9 Feb
2008
9 Feb
'08
3:31 a.m.
Christian Nelson wrote:
We're still talking about open-source journals that would utilize some sort of reader rating system to make editorial decisions, right? Why would powerful academics leave the current set of journals, over which they have total editorial control, for journals over which they would have considerably less control, considering that journal article publication is the main source of academic capital for most scholars? No one ever gives up power willingly.
Why should we assume that successful open access journals would involve any of that? I see no reason to think that open access has anything at all do do with "reader rating systems". --Jimbo