On Jan 18 2012, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Jérôme Pansanel > <j.pansa...@pansanel.net>wrote: > > > Dears, > > > > Did some one read this article: > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science > > > > Yes - Mike Taylor asked by to review it before publication. I think it's > very powerful. > > I hope that this pushes science inexorably to Open Access. I'm not > suggesting that OA should be part of the BlueO - we specifically omitted > that from the mantra of Open/Data/Standards/Source. But it's gratifying to > see that the J.Cheminform BlueO article is highly accessed.
One thing that occurred to me while reading this article was that OA would probably benefit a lot from an elite, high profile journal. One that could seriously compete with the likes of Nature or Science. Sounds a little far-fetched as I read it, but often I get the impression that scientists treat publishing in OA journals as a sort of charity or activism. It does not have the kudos effect that gets scientists so excited by Nature/Science. More specifically, what I mean is that most people agree that OA is a good idea, and they are quite apt to read OA articles. But publishing OA comes a lot harder. Especially when it comes to their best work, I am sure that no less than 99% of all scientists would ever pass on the chance of publishing in Nature/Science. Simply because they are so prestigious, highly filtered, etc. Just look at the official "benefits" of publishing in a PLoS journal: http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/benefits.action ... the most exciting point, for most people, is clearly #8 (the chance to have a high impact), and perhaps OA needs a place where that point is #1. Just a reflection, Karol -- written by Karol Langner Thu Jan 19 08:39:44 CET 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
