There’s an inherent flaw in modern academia: scholars are expected to publish in “high ranking” journals, foundational compilations of academic articles that—over time—have become engrained in the institutional social fabric of knowledge production within the academy.Blog entry on Open Source.
In fact, a general move to open access would be the best outcome for scholarly society publishers. If the entirety of journal publishing magically metamorphosed somehow to an open-access system, scholarly society publishers would be much better off. From a strategic point of view then, the best course of action for scholarly societies and for the faculty and researchers who support them would be to promote a shift to open access as widely and as quickly as possible.Blog entry.
(& where they end up, and why).The blog Free U.S. ETD’s is a blog created and managed by Gail Clement, Librarian and Associate Professor in Digital Services & Scholarly Communications at the Texas A&M University Libraries.
In this article, the author says, that adding value to scholarly publishing is about spending more time with the content. But from a researcher’s perspective time could only be spent with articles which got selected as relevant for the research topic.
Blogpost by Cameron Neylon on the weight societies have concerning scholarly research.
In a given space a scholarly society has a unique capacity to coordinate and organise assessment by domain experts. I can certainly imagine a society offering peer review as a core member service, independent of whether the thing being reviewed is already “published”.
Societies are all about community.
With the growing interest in OA worldwide comes the increasing demand for training, knowledge development, and skills for the implementing of OA repositories and OA journals, the twin routes for making research results openly accessible.
Alma Swan is project coordinator.