Monday, December 16, 2013

Boycott for Nature and Science journals


I completely agree with Prof. Randy Schekman, a Nobel price winner who decided to boycott Nature and Science level journals. Academic publishing process is presently in the "medieval age" and major changes are absolutely necessary.

http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/category/publishing/
Well, good news is that the change has started and hopefully it is accelerating whereas the only question is - what this publishing process will become?


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