20 years of cowardice: the pathetic response of American universities to the crisis in scholarly publishing
20 years of cowardice: the pathetic response of American universities to the crisis in scholarly publishingMichael Eisen writes about the opportunities universities have missed.
Universities should have stopped paying for subscriptions, forcing publishers to adopt alternative economic models. And they should have started to reshape the criteria for hiring, promotion and tenure, so that current and aspiring faculty did not feel compelled to publish in journals that were bankrupting the system.