Miguel, That is an interesting video, and it would probably be useful to undergraduates who don’t yet quite know what a peer-reviewed scientific journal is. However, the narrator is about a decade behind the times when it comes to the prominence and importance of “open” journals these days. It is an issue — a series of issues — that is becoming more complicated by the week.
Not only are there lots of prominent, respectable “open” (e.g., author-pays) journals now (all the versions of PLoS and, perhaps more controversially, the Frontiers series). A lot of the government research funding agencies have begun to bend to the argument that, if the public paid for the research (through government grants) then the public has a right to read it as well. (There are all kinds of problem with this argument, but it is getting traction where it matters — at the Cabinet table.) As a result, funding agencies across Europe (and in Canada) are beginning to insist that research supported by gov't funds be published in an “open” journal, or at least in a journal that will open a certain length of time after publication (e.g., 6 months, 1 year). Indeed, if you submit a paper to an APA journal now, there is a box asking whether your research was supported by a list of major international government funding agencies and, if you say “yes,” APA will not allow you to submit your work, because APA never makes its publications “open.” (Some “traditional” journals now allow the author to pay an additional fee in order to make the publication “open,” but I don’t think APA journals are among them… yet.) Best, Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773895°, -79.503670° chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo orcid.org/0000-0002-6027-6709 ………………………………... On Jul 25, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu> wrote: > An interesting video on peer review, predatory journals, and related issues: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlBsfTx3Kc. > > Although the discussion centers largely on climate science and biomedical > sciences, I think it is a good resource for both graduate and undergraduate > students for helping them discern legitimate science and scholarship from > junk. > > Miguel > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=51100 > or send a blank email to > leave-51100-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=51101 or send a blank email to leave-51101-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
