On the future of scientific publishing - the German Chemical Society takes a stand

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-12-21

Summary:

[From Google's English] "Whether the publication of scientific papers in the future the traditional path of 'peer review' follows, or whether new "Open Access" approaches should be pursued, is hotly debated in the scientific community. The German Chemical Society (German Chemical Society) has now presented a position paper their vision. She welcomes new approaches in publishing, but it looks clear requirements regarding quality assurance of the work and funding of open access models. 's independent reviewers from the same field as the authors guarantee the 'peer review' process, the quality and the scientific plausibility of the published work. This must remain essential to ensure new approaches from the perspective of the German Chemical Society. It is equally important, the long-term availability of the texts, especially in purely electronic publications to ensure. Finally must be sustainable and portable funding model for open access can be established. positions all the German Chemical Society and its recommendations regarding new publishing models can be found in the current position paper. It is free of charge as a PDF file in German and English on the Internet at http://www.gdch.de/positionen available. , the German Chemical Society (German Chemical Society), with over 30,000 members the largest and most important chemistry scientific society in continental Europe. In its constitution, the German Chemical Society committed to promoting the scientific publication and information science."

Link:

http://www.idw-online.de/en/news567211

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Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.policies oa.comment oa.quality oa.german oa.chemistry oa.recommendations oa.gcs oa.peer_review

Date tagged:

12/21/2013, 00:32

Date published:

12/20/2013, 19:32