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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:43
Crisis in Publishing - A Calm Discussion Forum Waiting in the Wings
Author: forsdyke
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:43
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:43
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This Group was started by me circa 1994 with support from certain Editors. I hoped that it would provide a general forum for issues related to scientific publishing. For many years Steve Harnad kept things going virtually single-handed. Had the Group been employed properly, perhaps the present crisis could have been avoided. Now there is talk of a boycot of Elsevier. Scientists are signing a petition ( http://thecostofknowledge.com/ ) threatening to boycot (publishing in and reviewing for) Elsevier, until it puts its house in order. Other publishing houses should not be complacent. Perhaps if the discussion were to be continued here, the crisis could be defused and the Group could attain its true potential. Donald Forsdyke, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Canada
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