Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Harvard Scientists' Efforts for Free Online Journal Access Make Little Ground

Stephen Downes

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The thrust of this article is that an open access academic journal poject promoted by three Harvard scientists has "stagnated" and that the free online journal has not yet reached the status of, say, Nature or Cell. While well established researchers can take the risk of publishing in a relatively unknown online journal, academics seeking tenure or ambitious gradutae students face the need to publish in an established journal. None of this should be surprising; the only surprising thing is that anyone would have the expectation that a free online journal would rival an established publication in its first few months of publication.

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