Moving The Needle On Open-Access Science Publishing | Comradde PhysioProffe
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20
Summary:
“The Open Access supporters who are calling for a boycott of certain non-Open Access journals and–mostly simultaneously–decrying what they see as the undue influence of “Glamour journals” (Science, Cell, Nature, PLoS Biology, and some of the top field-specific journals) are going about this all wrong. You don’t build support for people publishing in non-Open Access journals–both glamour and non-glamour–by telling them that it is unethical and pragmatically bad to do otherwise. Rather, you need to make them *want* to do so...”