Jan makes some good points but I think that a distinction should be made
between society publishers and commercial publishers.
I find it hard to imagine that the significance of society publishers is
"diminishing rapidly" given the rapidly growing importance of their journals.
Doesn't the futur
Could this be due to the failure of a business model that depends on donated
time/money?
Which sounds similar to the inherent problems with the SCOAP3 initiative from
CERN.
Dana L. Roth
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Caltech 1-32
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Pasadena, CA 91125
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dz
When I looked at OA journals a few years ago I found that (a) they tended to
publish very little and (b) they seemed much more likely to disappear or
wither on the vine
Sally
When is a journal not a journal? A closer look at the DOAJ. Sally Morris,
Learned Publishing Vol 19: 1, pp73-6, Jan 2006
On 2-Sep-10, at 5:15 AM, Sally Morris wrote:
When I looked at OA journals a few years ago I found that (a) they
tended to publish very little and (b) they seemed much more likely to
disappear or wither on the vine
Sally
When is a journal not a journal? A closer look at the DOAJ. Sally
Morris,