You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: A big DEAL for science – changing the game in scientific publishing
I am very happy to read about such an initiative. This copies the particle physics example :)
Do you know about the Scoap3 initiative? Research institutes for all around the world are sending money to Scoap3 so that a fee is paid to the main particle physics journals. A a results:
- Papers are published for free
- Papers are open access
As I like to say, our field is also an exception in the sense that all our articles are available in open access from the arXiv before being even submitted to a journal.
We also have the scipost project that is an online journal managed by physicists (not only particle physics) for physicists. On that platform, even the referee reports are available in an open access way :)
That sounds great, thank you for mentioning Scoap3. I knew about arXiv, but the other was unknown to me. Physicists were more advanced in that regard for a long time, it is astounding how different the world works depending on which field you are working in. I maybe should have clarified in the article that this is a particular problem in the life sciences, maybe I will edit it in later. Thanks again for your comment!
Well, they did invent the internet! So it kinda makes sense they're a step ahead on this.
Not the internet, but the world wide web :)
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to! :P
To-may-to, to-mah-to? Tomtato? :)
Maybe is it related to the fact that the community is smaller and that there is not big industry behind?
Where do you publish your papers? Are you evaluated through publications?
I am partly evaluated through my publications. Teaching, administration, etc..., everything counts. I usually publish in JHEP (open access), EPJC (open access), PLB (open access), and more rarely in PRD (soon open access).
All my publications are in addition available for free on the arxiv.
Maybe it is the lesser focus on papers. If the other things are taken into account and are responsible for a good share of your evaluation, the paper problem is not so pressing. In biology, only high impact factor papers get you jobs and money, thus creating a lot tension in the publishing field. And of course, somthing like that quickly gets monetized...