There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding among Wikipedians
how academe actually works. Piotr thinks a grad student can produce a
scholarly journal. Look at history. In reality it takes hundreds of
scholars working together (almost all of whom are paid professional
salaries by
I've seen professional scholarship go off track.
I wrote wiki to give a voice to programmers who were struggling under the bad
advice offered by academic computer science and software engineering. That's
worked pretty well for us, no thanks to ACM or IEEE.
From this perspective, everything
We have about as much talent and personnel as one journal. And an
operation of about the same order of magnitude.
Fred
There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding among Wikipedians
how academe actually works. Piotr thinks a grad student can produce a
scholarly journal. Look at history.
Piotr thinks a grad student can produce a scholarly journal.
Please don't misquote me, Richard. What I said is that a grad student
(in the capacity of assistant/managing editor) is the only person who
needs to be paid specifically for their work on the journal. Of course I
agree that it takes
Piotr says Let me repeat: editors, authors and reviewers are not
paid That's completely false. They are all paid professional
salaries by their home universities, and the kind of work they do is
counted in terms of getting jobs, promotions, pay raises and
tenure. Furthermore for the authors
Piotr says Let me repeat: editors, authors and reviewers are not
paid That's completely false. They are all paid professional
salaries by their home universities, and the kind of work they do is
counted in terms of getting jobs, promotions, pay raises and
tenure. Furthermore for the
As has already been discussed, journals have real costs that can be
covered *either* by charging readers *or* by charging writers.
Scientific publications general have *optional* page charges, which of
course few people pay. But they could easily switch to requiring them.
Such a switch
The work of a reviewer does not count towards tenure, or any other
reviews; nobody puts I reviewed articles on their CV, and reviewing
books counts for very, very little. I don't think any number of book
reviews would equal a peer reviewed journal publication in an academic
job hunt.
On 23 May 2012 14:47, Richard Jensen rjen...@uic.edu wrote:
Making them pay $1000 to $5000 so their
article is open access is a very unwise way to promote their scholarship.
(Few if any prestigious history journals are now open access; this seems
more an issue in sciences.)
Some open access
