>> > Though there are almost ten thousand open access journals, 95% of them >> are >> > either very small or very unimportant, and in almost all fields >> > of study, none or almost none of the important journals are open >> > access: >> >> This is my experience too; thanks for pointing it out. > > > I also think this is true, but I wonder how much the current, established > process of scholarship > is driving high quality articles towards "closed access": as I said before, > OA is mainly librarian-driven, because researchers and professors are much > more worried about > their career and tenure (it's no judgement, just a statement), so they > struggle to publish in high quality journals. > I think it is very difficult to change the whole environment of > scholarship, > > and just pointing out the virtue of being open is not enough if not > supported by real benefits > regarding tenure and career. > I personally believe that the Wikimedia movement should ally with OA > movement (i just don't know how ;-), > also tho change this situation. > Open access to reasearch and science is open access to culture and > knowledge, we perfectly match. >
I publish on a regular basis in top journals in physics, and there is only one OA journal of any value I know of: this is New Journal of Physics (published by IOP). It charges publication fees from the authors rather than from the readers, and has a reasonably good quality, at least special issues. Basically switching the scientific community to OA journals is equivalent from raising a number of new journals from scratch, and in my experience is unlikely. The only thing which potentially can occur is cross-field research, where new journals are likely to appear and for whatever reason they can be OA, but so far traditional journals like e.g. Nature responded by far more successfully to these cross-field changes. I personally do not see here any perspective, unless existing journals for whatever reason (which will have nothing to do with WMF) will switch to OA themselves. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l