See also this discussion of advantages of post-publication reviewing: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/post-publication-review.html
24 Feb 2011 [Expanded Feb 2012]: My current attitude to non-open-access journals.
I shall not normally knowingly and freely submit articles to closed-access
journals for publication, or do any reviewing for them.
If there's anything for which my web site is not a suitable medium I'll try one of the many excellent old and new open-access journals. (See examples below.)
One of many reasons for this is that I have increasingly been finding that the subscription charges of traditional journals (e.g. published by Springer, Elsevier, World Scientific, and others, are being used to pay marketing people to spam me with unwanted announcements about new publications, new issues, new offers etc. Our precious, very limited, research funding should not be used to subsidise those processes. These people do not realise that if we want to find out about what has been published in some topic we can use search engines very effectively, and do not need to have already large amounts of incoming spam increased. (Of course, people who want to be informed can ask to be informed.)
Some of these publishers claim that they give authors the option to have open-access publications, but their charges are so extortionate as to deter most researchers from accepting that offer. This is obviously a deliberate policy to deter them from choosing the open-access option. Examples that I have found include Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and others (e.g. the {\em Topics in Cognitive Science} journal, to which I refuse to contribute, partly because they also require use of MSWord, not LaTex.
For this and other reasons indicated below, when asked to review for a NON open access journal I shall normally decline on the grounds that I don't see why I should do unpaid work to benefit the shareholders of the company, and more importantly, I want to make the researchers concerned with the journal think about open access alternatives.
Editorial boards have been known to defect from commercial publishers and start afresh. E.g. see http://thecostofknowledge.com.
More researchers should now join the refusers, especially as there is now free software available to do most of the admin required for a journal automatically, as has already been happening for research conferences for several years.
Academics should also refuse to collaborate with appointment, tenure, or promotion committees that that use where research is published as a criterion of excellence, instead of making strenuous efforts to judge the quality of the research (using expert external referees if necessary). The strongest reason for this is that even if publication in a high quality journal is evidence of research quality, rejection by such journals is NOT evidence of poor quality, partly because such journals have limited space available, partly because refereeing can be of variable quality, and partly because in the current research climate it is in the interests of journals to report high rejection rates.
Occasionally colleagues ask me to co-author, or review, or contribute to something involving a closed journal. In some cases, if I think they really need my help I may go along with this while trying hard to encourage them to switch to using open-access options in future. (Harder for young academics when so many appointment and promotion committees pay more attention to where something was published than to its quality -- an intellectually lazy and irresponsible attitude to selection or promotion.)
My policy is provisional and may change.
What they don't say is that submitting a paper to their journal is a waste of time for the vast majority of authors -- if their main objective is to get their papers published.
Of course the journal may be providing a useful service if all the submitted papers are carefully reviewed and the authors get helpful feedback that will improve their research an future publications.
However, I think that for many researchers the use of pre-publication reviewing is the wrong system. Open access combined with post-publication reviews can, for many purposes provide a superior model, for reasons given in http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/post-publication-review.html
I normally refuse to contribute to or review for journals that are not open access,
or which are open but charge authors extortionate amounts (presumably to discourage
them from selecting the open access option, e.g. Springer, Elsevier and others).
The amount of unwanted, unsolicited, advertising spam I get from advertising managers at
such companies shows what subscriptions and
author charges are being used to pay for.
I would prefer not to use my precious funds to pay for such activities.
14 Nov 2011
Humanities - Open Access Journal
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities
Humanities is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing open
access journal, which publishes works from extensive fields including
history, law, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, linguistics and so
on. There is no restriction on the length of the papers as we encourage
researchers to publish their innovative ideas and results in as much
detail as possible. To guarantee a rapid refereeing and editorial
process, Humanities follows standard publication practices in the
natural sciences.
Subject Areas:
* History
* Law
* Literature
* Philosophy
* Religion
* Arts
* Linguistics
* Other related areas
http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/
Article processing charges (for authors)
1 Oct 2011
The Open Philosophy Journal
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tophilj
The Open Philosophy Journal is an Open Access online journal which
publishes peer-reviewed articles and guest edited single topic issues
addressing all aspects of philosophy. Research areas covered by the
journal: include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, political
philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, science, psychology,
mind, language and law, and ancient philosophy. The emphasis will be on
publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available to researchers
worldwide.
Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution non-commercial License which permits
unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any
medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
PUBLICATION FEES:
Short Articles and Discussion Notes: The publication fee for each
published Short Articles and Discussion Notes submitted is US $250.
Research Articles: The publication fee for each published Research
article is US $300.
Mini-Review Articles: The publication fee for each published Mini-Review
article is US $250.
Review Articles: The publication fee for each published Review article
is US $350.
29 Sep 2011
Rationality, Markets and Morals
http://www.rmm-journal.de
Studies at the Intersection of Philosophy and Economics
An open access journal published by Frankfurt School Verlag
17 Sep 2011:
Philosophy and Theory in Biology,
http://philosophyandtheoryinbiology.org
Online open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to bridge
philosophy of science and theoretical biology.
(Alas latex not accepted.)
9 Jul 2011:
Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy
http://www.mic.ul.ie/stephen/vol13/Own13.html
Minerva is a refereed electronic journal of philosophy. It is published
annually and is available on an open-access basis on the Internet. The
journal publishes articles relating to philosophy construed in a broad
but scholarly sense, without preference for any particular school or
intellectual tradition. Each volume will appear in the month of
November. As an electronic journal, Minerva provides swift publication
and distribution, while reaction to published articles can be garnered
with equal speed. It is intended that the journal will foster debate by
publishing considered replies to certain articles and providing a forum
for scholarly discourse.
Featured articles and all other materials, unless otherwise indicated,
are the copyright of the Journal, under the terms of the Copyright Act
1963. All rights are reserved, but fair and good faith use with full
attribution may be made of all contents for educational or scholarly
purposes.
EDITOR
Dr. Stephen Thornton
Head, Department of Philosophy, MIC, University of Limerick, Ireland.
15 Apr 2011:
International Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology
http://www.academicjournals.org/IJGMB
Journal of Cell and Animal Biology
http://www.academicjournals.org/JCAB
Both committed to free open access, but there's a charge for authors
($550 when I looked -- much lower than some prestigious journals).
From web site:
Authors may still request (in advance) that the editorial office waive some
of the handling fee under special circumstances
10 Apr 2011: The Berlin Journal of Philosophy
http://www.adrianpiper.com/berlinjphil/
The Berlin Journal of Philosophy is a blind-submission, double-blind,
peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will publish articles on all topics in
the four traditional major areas of philosophical specialization, namely
epistemology & metaphysics
logic
value theory
history of philosophy
and their established subspecialities (long list follows).
NOTE: The emphasis on double-blind reviewing prompted me to write some notes on
the advantages of post-publication reviewing, here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/post-publication-review.html
12 Mar 2011: Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas
http://www.jihi.eu
A new open-access academic peer-refereed journal, devoted to interdisciplinary
history of ideas. Interdisciplinary history of ideas focuses on the bonds
that relate more general historical study in the field, and special fields
such as the history of philosophy, history of economic thought, history
of science, history of art, history of law, and so on, that are usually
severed in research works, though connected in the real course of
intellectual history.
14 Feb 2011: Praxis (Publisher: University of Manchester)
http://praxisjp.org/
Praxis is an online postgraduate journal of philosophy edited by postgraduate
students at the University of Manchester.
Our aim is to offer an opportunity for research students, post-doctoral
scholars and new academics to publish papers and reviews in an international
peer-reviewed journal, providing special support for those in the beginning
of their academic career.
13 Jan 2011: Journal of the philosophical-interdisciplinary vanguard
http://www.avant.umk.pl/en/
Our aim is to spread the idea of modern interdisciplinary philosophy,
sciences and humanities, and to propagate the relations between them and
art. We are mostly interested in new approaches to human cognition like new
trends in cognitive science, modern phenomenology, new approaches in
psychology, enactivism, embodied and situated cognition, extended mind,
social ontology, sciences of complexity and others. We believe that these
conceptions are crucial for development of contemporary anthropology and
should been widely introduced to people interested in complex theories of
human behaviour.
29 Dec 2010: Journal of Cosmology Astronomy - Astrobiology Earth Sciences - Life
http://journalofcosmology.com/Charges.html
Open access publishing provides immediate, worldwide, free access to the
full-text of all published articles. Open access allows scholars, scientists,
government officials, and the general public to view, download, print, and
redistribute any article without a subscription. Open access publishing insures a
far superior means of distribution compared to the traditional subscription-based
publishing model. Because there are no subscription fees, publication costs are
paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institution, in the
form of Article Processing and Publication Fees.
All Processing and Publication Charges Are Waved for Invited Papers. Article
Processing Fee: The Journal of Cosmology is a Peer Reviewed Open Access journal
and requires the payment of a $35.00 Article Processing Fee to cover costs for
processing and managing the peer review process. Manuscripts will not be
processed until all Processing Fees have been paid.
All articles are peer reviewed. This $35.00 fee is not refundable if the article
is rejected.
Article Publication Fee: If the article is accepted, there is a $150.00
Publication Charge, that will be billed to and must be paid by the submitting
author following the acceptance of the article for publication.
Accepted articles will not be published until the publication fee is received.
13 Dec 2010: What is the LOCKSS Program? LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
http://lockss.stanford.edu/lockss/Home
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University
Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries
with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and
inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content.
LOCKSS, in its eleventh year, provides libraries with the open-source
software and support to preserve today's web-published materials for
tomorrow's readers while building their own collections and acquiring a copy
of the assets they pay for, instead of simply leasing them. LOCKSS provides
100% post cancellation access.
The ACM award-winning LOCKSS technology is an open source, peer-to-peer,
decentralized digital preservation infrastructure. LOCKSS preserves all
formats and genres of web-published content. The intellectual content, which
includes the historical context (the look and feel), is preserved. LOCKSS is
OAIS-compliant; the software migrates content forward in time; and the bits
and bytes are continually audited and repaired.
13 Dec 2010: Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (JHAP)
http://jhaponline.org/
JHAP aims to promote research in and discussion of the history
of analytical philosophy. 'Analytical' is understood broadly and
we aim to cover the complete history of analytical philosophy,
including the most recent one. JHAP takes the history of
analytical philosophy to be part of analytical philosophy.
Accordingly, it publishes historical research that interacts
with the ongoing concerns of analytical philosophy and with the
history of other twentieth century philosophical traditions. In
addition to research articles, JHAP publishes discussion notes
and reviews.
The Journal is published in the spirit of the open access
movement. Articles will be freely available in electronic form.
Published by New Prairie Press
Open Journal Systems
13 Dec 2010: The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
http://thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic
3 Dec 2010: HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
Free access to all papers available
http://www.hyle.org
HYLE combines autonomous scientific quality management (double
blind peer review) with modern technology of electronic
production and distribution. We are committed to the policy of
the Budapest Open Access Initiative and, thus, avoid obsolete,
costly, time-consuming, and heteronomous procedures of
traditional commercial publishers. This enables an up-to-date
forum for discussion in the young field of the philosophy of
chemistry and brings the international community together,
without discriminating scholars from financially less developed
countries.
17 Nov 2010: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IJAE)
http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/description.php?JCode=IJAE
Publisher: Computer Science Journals
Open Access, but authors pay USD$160 publication fee.
8 Nov 2010: Journal of Logic and Analysis
http://www.logicandanalysis.org/
[No author charges. No reader charges.]
This journal examines the interaction between ideas or techniques from
mathematical logic and other areas of mathematics, especially, but not
limited to, pure and applied analysis. Journal of Logic and Analysis
publishes papers in nonstandard analysis and related areas of applied model
theory; papers involving interplay between mathematics and logic (including
foundational aspects of such interplay); and mathematical papers using or
developing analytical methods having connections to any area of mathematical
logic.
3 Nov 2010: Yet another web site about open access in academic disciplines
http://open-access.net/de_en/open_access_in_individual_disciplines/philosophy/
http://open-access.net/de_en/homepage/
The open-access.net platform aims to meet the growing demand for
information on the subject of Open Access (OA). Our editorial team
gathers information which is scattered across many sources and
bundles it thematically for presentation to various target groups.
25 Oct 2010: MIT Faculty Open Access Policy
Policy adopted by unanimous vote of the faculty on 3/18/2009:
http://info-libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/open-access-at-mit/mit-open-access-policy/
(Thanks to Rosalind Picard for information about this.)
3 Oct 2010: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/10-02-10.htm
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #150
October 2, 2010 by Peter Suber
"Self-archiving diary
I have a confession to make. For as long as I've urged scholars to
support OA, I've urged them to self-archive. But I wasn't
systematic about doing it myself until last year.
....
Note to repository managers: Supporting PDF alongside other formats like
HTML and XML is a feature; supporting PDF-only is a bug.
...."
(There's lots more. Well worth reading.
Personal comment by A.S.: My own work straddles disciplines and topics in ways that
make it hard for me to use repositories designed by others. Also I don't
believe in 'archival' publishing. There should always be opportunities for
authors to update their works if they can improve them (as composers have
been doing for centuries. The vast majority of what is published is of
little or no value and will hardly ever be read. So the cost of elaborate
permanent archiving mechanisms is not justified. Simple permanent archiving
allowing edits (perhaps with histories of edits) should suffice
for the vast majority of publications.)
3 Oct 2010: OpenDepot.org
http://opendepot.org/information.html OpenDepot.org
The purpose of OpenDepot.org is to ensure that all academics
worldwide can share in the benefits of making their research
output Open Access. For those whose universities and
organisations have an online repository, OpenDepot.org makes
them easy to find. For those without a local repository,
including unaffiliated researchers, the OpenDepot is a place
of deposit, available for others to harvest.
We have tried to make OpenDepot.org easy or researchers and
authors to use.
(Hosted by Edina: University of Edinburgh)
29 Sep 2010: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications (IJAIA)
Open Access, but $120 author charge, up to 20 pages.
26 Sep 2010: Open Journal Systems
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-journals
A sample of the "over 6600" journals using OJS
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
"Scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals
committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect
to make the transition to open access..."
Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing
system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project
through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to
research.
OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process,
from submissions through to online publication and indexing. Through
its management systems, its finely grained indexing of research, and
the context it provides for research, OJS seeks to improve both the
scholarly and public quality of refereed research.
OJS is open source software made freely available to journals
worldwide for the purpose of making open access publishing a viable
option for more journals, as open access can increase a journal's
readership as well as its contribution to the public good on a
global scale (see PKP Publications).
(See also Directory of Open Access Journals, below)
26 Sep 2010: http://openhumanitiespress.org/
From the web page
"Making scholarly work available without charge on the internet
has offered hope for the natural sciences and now offers hope in the
humanities."
Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing
collective in critical and cultural theory.
Open Humanities Press journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly
publications that have been chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board
for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. OHP's
journals are independent, published under open access licences and
free of charge to readers and authors alike.
Journals include:
* Cosmos and History
* Culture Machine
* Fast Capitalism
* Fibreculture
* Film-Philosophy
* Filozofski vestnik
* Image and Narrative
* International Journal of Zizek Studies
* Parrhesia
* Postcolonial Text
* Vectors
26 Sep 2010:
http://www.publicpraxis.com/speculations/
Speculations is a journal of speculative realism that hopes to
provide a forum for the exploration of speculative realism and
post-continental philosophy. Our aim is to facilitate discussion
about ongoing developments within speculative realism. The journal
is open access and peer-reviewed. We accept short position papers,
full length articles and book reviews.
Inquiries and submissions can be sent to speculationsjournal@gmail.com
26 Sep 2010:
http://www.openhumanitiesalliance.org/incubator/index.php/thinkingnature/
Thinking Nature
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the
principle that making research freely available to the public
supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology Journal of Bioequivalence & Bioavailability Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals Journal of Bioanalysis & Biomedicine Journal of Cancer Science & Therapy Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology Other Omics Journals21 Sep 2010: Kant Studies Online
The Directory of Open-Access Journals -- http://www.doaj.org/ -- includes:3 Dec 2009:Agriculture and Food Sciences Languages and Literatures Arts and Architecture Law and Political Science Biology and Life Sciences Mathematics and Statistics Business and Economics Philosophy and Religion Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environmental Sciences Science General General Works Social Sciences Health Sciences Technology and Engineering History and ArchaeologyCovers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Message posted 1 Mar 2011 claims:There are now 6208 journals in the directory. Currently 2652 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 514357 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
This statement by the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan is very relevant:==================================================================
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0009.102
EARLY DRAFT TO BE REORGANISED
Message sent to some discussion lists for computing and philosophy
From Aaron Sloman Wed Aug 12 15:46:41 BST 2009
Subject: Don't review for subscription-only journals
I have just received another of those 'please will you review'
requests from a journal whose accepted papers are available only to
people (or organisations) who pay a subscription.
I think that from now on I should agree to review ONLY on condition
that if the paper is accepted it will be made freely available to
everyone in the world.
I don't see why my work, or the work of researchers paid for by
tax-payers in any country should be available only to people who
contribute to the profits of publishers.
Is there any reason why all academics shouldn't start doing this?
In any case, people whose papers are accessible only to subscribers
will not be read by people in other disciplines who may be
interested, or students, intelligent lay people,etc., so they are
losing opportunities to communicate (or get feedback).
There are new journals that make all their articles freely available
and charge authors only a small amount, or nothing. We should all
submit papers ONLY to those.
Aaron
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NOTE:
It is hard for younger researchers to act on this if they know
that job selection panels and promotion panels still use the
quality of journals (as measured by impact factors) as a basis
for assessing individuals.
This is highly immoral: as immoral as assessing people on the
basis of where they were born, where they studied, the colour of
their skin, etc. It should be made illegal and assessment should
be based only on the quality of the work as assessed by experts.
Counting publications in high impact journals instead of reading
research reports is an intellectually lazy way to do
selection.
Another point (30 Nov 2009):
Highly rated journals tend to have much longer publication
queues than the newer open-access journals that don't get so
many submissions.
So for young researchers wanting (a) to get their papers
published and (b) wanting their papers to be read it may be that
avoidance of delay may be far more important than being visible
in a highly rated place.
Remember many people search for things to read on the basis of
their content, not where they are published. Several of my
informally published web pages come up higher than articles on
similar topics in prestigious journals -- possibly because far
fewer people can read and link to those papers.
When I post things on www.slideshare.net they seem to be read
by more people people more quickly than anything I publish in
other places.
http://www.slideshare.net/asloman/presentations
(Of course, that is not even refereed.)
I suspect that academe may move toward relying far more on
post-publication reviewing than on pre-publication reviewing,
especially as the latter is known to be full of biases and
anomalies, as shown by experiments submitting the same paper
with different names and addresses for authors. Blind reviewing
cannot eliminate all reviewer prejudices. Even world-leading
experts can make serious errors of judgment.
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INTERDISCIPLINARITY
(Added 17 Aug 2010)
Two consequences of research output going into journals that require
subscriptions are (a) that researchers tend to be limited in what
they read since they tend to subscribe to a small subset of the
journals whose contents are potentially relevant to their research
and (b) that each publication tends to be read by a restricted set
of researchers for the same reason.
This in effect means that there is often inadequate
cross-disciplinary communication between researchers with
overlapping interests leading to duplicated research effort time
wasted because relevant knowledge is not available when someone is
working on a problem and inadequate teaching, because teachers fail
to inform their students of some of the important relevant knowledge.
I see effects of this often when interviewing job candidates: they
have been trained to focus their research vision in such a narrow
way that they really don't understand the problems they are working
because they are ignorant of aspects other researchers have already
explored.
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In October 2009 someone wrote to one of those discussion lists
pointing out that their university librarian reported that libraries
are moving more and more towards these given that they remain
peer-reviewed but free. He wondered if there is any sense that such
works are of 'lesser quality' because they are free AND how such
journals can survive without charging subscriptions...
This provoked the following response (from me):
It looks as if you did not get the answer sent to the list in
response to your earlier posting of this question. I copy it below.
I agree with the sentiments expressed and have seen open access
journals in other disciplines that are thriving, e.g.
http://www.jair.org/
among others.
The doubts being raised about quality are, I suspect, mainly stirred
up by those with an interest in preserving the older journals (the
companies that publish them, their editors, etc.)
The main obstacle to growth of open access journals is an attitude
that individuals and departments should be judged not by the quality
of their work but by where they publish their papers. This helps to
preserve the near monopoly of the expensive journals. Fortunately in
philosophy many of the journals are available at low cost. But the
fact that articles are not freely available stops non-subscribers
all round the world gaining access.
Do philosophers want their work to be read ONLY by professional
philosophers, and do they want to learn only from criticisms by
professional philosophers? I hope not.
Regarding ads or sponsorship: the best way to answer that is to look
at the journals that try either or both. A lot will depend on how
they do it. If ads are too obtrusive people will use other journals.
Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
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Here is some other information posted on discussion lists.
A new OpenAccess journal
LOGOS - Freie Zeitschrift fuer wissenschaftliche Philosophie
http://fzwp.de
They use the open journal system for the website, LaTeX for the
formatting of the PDF files, and tex4ht for transforming
TeX files to XHTML.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO reason why an open-access journal should be of
lesser quality than one with limited access.
A good introduction to open access:
http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm
More information:
A discussion about OA in philosophy:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/open-access-journals-in-philosophy-why-arent-there-more-and-more-better-ones.html
An open access web site with lots of information about philosophy
and philosophers:
http://philpapers.org
(Apparently does not yet use the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting,
therefore, despite all its merits, not yet suitable for uploading articles.)
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At one time people were strongly in favour of using journals with
large lists of subscribers because that was the only way to be read
by many people. That has been changed completely by the internet: if
your paper is freely available and is discovered by search engines,
or recommended by other academics it could end up being read by far
more people around the world than if it were available only to
subscribers to any particular journal. (Most subscribers do not have
time to read everything in all the journals they subscribe to,
anyway.)
OF COURSE, THE SYSTEM WILL WORK AND PROVIDE LONG TERM AVAILABILITY
ONLY IF THE OPEN ACCESS SITES INSTEAD OF BEING FUNDED BY
SUBSCRIPTIONS (OFTEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHAREHOLDERS) ARE INSTEAD
FUNDED BY GOVERNMENTS (TAXPAYERS).
The savings in costs to universities and other educational and
research institutions could be enormous, thereby probably more than
re-couping the extra costs of supporting the archives, which would
otherwise include a contribution to shareholders' profits.
Update: 5 Dec 2009
Here is an example of a government funded open-access collection of
journals I have just come across
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=3613&lang=en
Hrcak
Portal of scientific journals of Croatia
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For me one of the serious disadvantages of normal journal
publications is that items are frozen. Nothing I write is finished:
I like being able to make corrections additions, improved wording,
etc. If a composer can do it to a symphony or string quartet, why
shouldn't a researcher do it to research reports/discussions, etc.
I do not know of any journals that accept updates of previously
published papers, whereas many open-access self-archiving
repositories do. I suspect it is just a matter of time before the
practice spreads, since the use of the internet has enormously
reduced the cost compared with replacing paper versions.
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Some links
Maintained by
Aaron Sloman
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham