Monday, February 04, 2013
Racket Bawl
As arbiters of science's reputation system, journal publishers acquire copyright to the world's leading scientific output for free. They then charge scientists, who authored and reviewed the articles, and taxpayers, who
funded the research, $8 billion a year to access the findings. The exit from this revolving door lies in creating new reputation metrics, Academia.edu's Richard Price argues.
Labels:
academia,
journals,
publishing,
research,
science
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