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In effect, this presentation asks whether the results of fundamental research in science, technology, and medicine—results that clearly stand at a pre-competitive stage if viewed in commercial terms, results that may even, in some cases, save lives—will remain part of humanity’s knowledge commons, or whether they will be gradually confiscated for the benefit of smaller and smaller scientific and business elites
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The new scientific republic was never egalitarian, nor did it ever strive to approximate this ideal
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The design of a scientific periodical, far from primarily aiming at disseminating knowledge, really seeks to reinforce property rights over ideas; intellectual property and authors were not legal concepts designed to protect writers—they were invented for the printers’ or stationers’ benefits.
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scientists want the best citations from the most authoritative sources possible and this shows that scientific publishing actually rests on the perception of a pecking order among journals
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In this manner, they check the progress of colleagues and potential competitors. Of course, they also monitor other news of a more professional nature (conferences, new research centers, new programs, etc.), but this activity has little to do with the direct transmission of scientific knowledge.
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being published in a well-known journal is a bit like appearing on prime time television. It delivers audiences; it creates visibility. For example, if you are a faculty member in a second-rank university and you publish in Nature, you will probably be celebrated in the local campus rag
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The impossible dream was to find a way to buy only what users actually needed.
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Science Citation Index (SCI)
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However, as Jack Meadows12 has shown, problems of delays and recurring tendencies to censor some areas of research (such as phrenology or, more surprisingly, statistics),
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publishers translated as the constitutive elements of an "inelastic market", i.e., a market where demand was little affected by pricing (and vice versa).
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Simply pointing to this 1 to 1,000 range in weighted prices is enough to demonstrate the total arbitrariness of the pricing of scientific journals, i.e., its complete disconnection from actual production costs. It should also suffice to respond to Ann Okerson’s (hopefully rhetorical) question: Do we really pay too much for our scientific information?14 Of course, we pay way too much! Otherwise, prices could not vary as wildly as they do.
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e following episode may even be more interesting: thanks to SPARC’s support, at least one editor has been able to convince his publisher to lower subscription prices: The American Association of Physical Anthropology has convinced to lower the institutional price to $1,390 from $2,085!24 The possibility of launching an alternative journal must have played some role in the background of these discussions.
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julius beezerIf scientific disputes could be handled in a quiet, orderly, and civil manner, Oldenburg and others calculated, natural philosophers would stand to gain a better, more dignified, public image. At the same time, the presence of a public registry of scienti
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windox windox1jean-claude guédon. In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing
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