Redaktører: 'Open access har skabt et usundt system' | Videnskab.dk

"'It is an unhealthy system.' This is how Jørgen Burchardt, president of the Danish Science Editors, the upheaval going on in academic publishing. The unhealthy is the emergence of 'golden' open, in English called golden open access journals, which, according to Jørgen Burchardt distort the economic balance between the researcher and the publishers. "In the old days you could just get your article published. Now you have money with, "he said, adding that it could mean that some scientists can not afford to get their research findings disseminated. But the criticism is opposed by Lars Bjorn Hauge, director of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which since 2003 has sought to increase the visibility and use of open magazines. He believes that the current system is rotten because it allows publishers to take advantage of the universities, while not delivering what research, industry and innovation need ..."