Un anno turbolento per l’editoria scientifica: fra cause legali, boicottaggi e dimissioni di interi board scientifici – ROARS

[From Google translate] "A turbulent year for scientific publishing: between lawsuits, boycotts and the resignation of entire scientific boards"

Let's resume here, extending it, an article appeared on December 15th on The Scientist that deals with some big events of 2017 that have had and will have strong repercussions on the system of circulation of scientific information. It was a year of actions and reactions in which the actors in the field (publishers and scientific communities) tried, more or less aggressively, to pursue their own reasons. There was no winner, the game is still in progress. What is certain is that after (tens of years) in which the circuit of scientific communication has remained the same as itself, now things are moving very quickly. On the one hand we have the entry of new actors (such as social networks or pirated sites), on the other the experimentation of new ways of production, validation and evaluation of scientific research.