Who owns your favourite journal? | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-05-26

Summary:

"This is an important question, and one that is all too easy to overlook. No doubt the editorial board of Lingua assumed that they owned and controlled their journal, right up to the moment they decided to find a different publisher who would help them transition to reasonably priced open access. Only then did Elsevier flex their muscles and tell them “no”. Which is why the board left the journal en masse and started a new journal, Glossa, which is the continuation of the old one in everything but name.

An editorial board can influence a journal’s direction; but really, the board, or other representatives of the scholarly community, need to own a journal in order to be free to take it in the direction that best benefits that community."

Link:

https://svpow.com/2017/05/25/who-owns-your-favourite-journal/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.comment oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.academic_led

Date tagged:

05/26/2017, 13:20

Date published:

05/26/2017, 09:20