BIOL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Web Of Science, Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports
25 Jan 2018
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4:06 pm: nowadays: open source journals, used to be that most journals were published by learned societies, the monetary aspect: the university was the payer of the subscription. What has changed: the person paying for it, access to the paper. *giving access to more people to publish/to read. Societies don"t make much money (the traditional way: but, if you"re charging the researchers to pay to get their papers published, then you"re making money. In the researchers interest - given tenure/grants based on number of publications. In researchers interest and open access publisher"s interest. The quality of peer review: quality goes down, because they want more stuff to be published/i. e. more people to pay to have their papers published. In traditional papers: less then 5% of papers submitted are accepted: extensive peer review. If you"re open access: you don"t want to lose authors (that means losing money) Because of this financial problem: peer review in open access journals are not great.
