The author considers alternatives to the 'author-pays' model of open access journals. Most of the suggestions are tiny steps back toward the traditional model. But he does raise a major point: "we can save significant funds if we reconsider the entire Promotion and Tenure process, with its publish-or-perish emphasis. The existing system encourages unlimited scholarly publication, and enormous numbers of editorial boards with little guarantee of quality control from many commercial operations. It is clear that at the present time there is a market for any author if they are willing to be published in a less significant journal." I agree; we don't need so many journals, certainly not with institutional archiving. While reading, don't miss this great link to the Journal Cost Update web page. Via Open Access News.
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