Open access for and against: Physics Today: Vol 73, No 2

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-02-17

Summary:

"The 18 December letter to Trump organized by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and signed by 135 professional societies builds its case around upholding US leadership in science. While I accept that invoking patriotism is sometimes necessary when appealing to politicians, I find the practice unsavory. Science is an international enterprise.

Still, how strongly is a country’s scientific prestige tied to its homegrown journals? Weakly, in my view. None of the top physics journals is Japanese, yet Japan is a physics powerhouse. In 1994 Stuttgart-based Holtzbrinck Publishing Group bought a controlling stake in London-based Macmillan Publishers, owners of Nature, arguably the world’s foremost scientific journal. Nature and its swelling number of stablemates remain under German ownership. The UK’s standing in science has not fallen nor has Germany’s risen as a result...."

Link:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4399

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oa.new oa.debates oa.societies oa.embargoes oa.mandates oa.usa oa.trump oa.objections oa.aap oa.nationalism oa.policies

Date tagged:

02/17/2020, 09:54

Date published:

02/17/2020, 04:54