Journals, academia and the ivory tower
Doug Belshaw,
Weblog,
Jan 24, 2012
In the denouement of online journals nothing quite matches Daniel Lemire's condemnation of Elsevier: "Elsevier has committed too many sins to give an exhaustive list: they have created fake academic journals so that pharmaceutical corporations could claim that certain facts appeared in a journal, they have sponsored evil regulations, and they have restrictive views on what constitutes fair use. Unbelievably, they were also involved in arms trade. They probably have the devil on their board of directors." And Doug Belshaw links to a good tirade on their worth, quoting Dan Meyer: "They affect a lot of policy, which I think is a really good, top-down approach. But then I’m over here and I can post something that’s seen by 10,000 people overnight. That’s the number of subscribers I have to my blog right now." Or as Belshaw concludes, "Is the only reason we persist with journals and their articles is because they provide a convenient means to weigh the pig?"
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