Verplichte open access bedreigt kwaliteit onderzoek | Netkwesties

[From Google's English] "Secretary of Education Sander Dekker wants scientific results are free. Dutch scientists must therefore their results from 2016 published in so-called open access journals, and if they do not, then you want the Secretary to include an obligation to do so by law.  This sounds noble, but it will be a disaster for the level of scholarship at Dutch universities. What's wrong with the plan?  The efforts of researchers at the university should be to publish. Outcomes in the most highly regarded journals These magazines handle the toughest assessment procedures, and that they can do because the range of possible products is very large.The result is that the quality of the maximum.

By far the most prestigious journals are not free and the most famous, such as Nature, Science and The Lancet have already indicated not to participate in free access. This is not surprising, because keeping the air of a magazine costs money.  For example, to give a timely manner to deliver their reports. Referees a financial incentive Dekker's plan is the incentive to publish in the best journals thus undermined.  Assuming that scientists indeed be bothered by the pressure not to publish in the top journals the level of our scientific practice may fall ..."