The death of biomedical journals

LaPorte, Ronald E.; Marler, Eric; Akazawa, Shunichi; Sauer, François; Gamboa, Carlos Andrés Cano; Shenton, Chris; Glosser, Caryle; Villasenor, Anthony; Maclure, Malcolm

doi:10.1136/bmj.310.6991.1387

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“…Practically all of the scientifi c journals have internet access, albeit for a fee, to their collections. As pointed out by LaPorte et al, 6 this represents a threat to traditional forms of publishing. OA is growing, notably through free access portals such as Public Library of Science, Biomed Central and Scientifi c Electronic Library Online.…”

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A indústria de publicação contra o acesso aberto

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Rev. Saúde Pública

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A publicação em revistas de acesso aberto cresceu expressivamente nos últimos anos. As publicações de acesso fechado, por sua vez, têm custo de acesso cada vez mais elevado, por se beneficiarem de um modelo econômico peculiar: o trabalho relevante e os insumos essenciais são entregues gratuitamente a fornecedores que contam com um mercado cativo, praticamente sem concorrência. O mercado editorial é altamente oligopolizado, característico de indústrias que trabalham com o regime de copyright. Isso contribui para a elevação dos preços de seus produtos. Políticas mandatórias de acesso aberto, como a determinada pela agência National Institutes of Health, constituem-se em ameaça a esse modelo de negócios e são enfrentadas pela indústria em várias frentes, incluindo a passagem de legislação para sabotar tais iniciativas. O objetivo deste comentário foi apresentar alguns aspectos principais desse enfrentamento e sugerir possíveis estratégias de incremento da publicação de acesso aberto em nosso meio.

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“…Traditionally, prestige of publication venues has served as a way of signaling the overall quality and significance of published articles; hence, authors try to publish their work in the highest reputation journal that targets their audience and accepts their work. Open peer review processes for post-publication curation that complements pre-publication peer-review, or as an alternative to traditional pre-publication peer-review processes have attracted much recent attention [2,7]. These processes offload a much larger part of the decision making process about what to read to readers themselves.…”

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Rethinking the peer review process

Nobarany

2014

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computi

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Computer-support for peer review has been mostly limited to facilitating traditional reviewing processes and remedying scalability issues. My research aims to inform the design of future scientific peer review processes and the systems that support them by analyzing current practices in peer review, suggesting guidelines for the design of future peer-review processes and the systems that support them, and exploring the design space of interfaces to support the primary tasks in the peer review process (e.g. opinion measurement interfaces).

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“…The idea is that positive comments would probably make an article more significant, while negative comments (or no comments) would probably encourage its marginal-isation. LaPorte et al (1995) exemplify this with the plan of a ''global health information server'' where papers would get a public comment card. ''If papers are poor, then the scientific community will most certainly indicate that they are poor; this is the nature of science, and this is the nature of the internet'' (for law, see Hibbitts 1996;Tomlins 1998).…”

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Quality control in academic publishing: challenges in the age of cyberscience

Nentwich

2004

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This article discusses the future of quality control in an academic publication system that will be largely based on electronic publishing. Information and communication technologies both challenge traditional ways and open remedies for existent problems of present gate-keeping. New forms of ex-ante and of ex-post quality control may partly replace and partly amend peer review, citation indices and quality filters based on the reputation of the publisher. Open peer review, online commenting, rating, access counts and use tracking are evaluated and put in perspective. Refuting the common argument that e-publishing leads to less quality, this paper puts forward scenarios of the future quality control system. Most likely, we shall see mixed systems, combining old and new elements, of different shapes in the different research fields. Re´sume´Le pre´sent article se penche sur l'avenir du controˆle de qualite´dans un syste`me d'e´dition universitaire qui sera largement fonde´sur la publication e´lectronique. Les technologies de l'information et de la communication lancent un de´fi aux me´thodes traditionnelles, mais ouvrent aussi la voie a`la solution des proble`mes existants actuellement dans le domaine des syste`mes a`acce`s indirect. De nouvelles formes de controˆle de qualite´ante´rieur et poste´rieur pourront partiellement remplacer et modifier le syste`me de controˆle par les pairs, des index de citations et des filtres de qualite´base´sur la re´putation de la maison d'e´dition. Un controˆle ouvert par les pairs, les commentaires en ligne, les e´valuations, le comptage des consultations et la trac¸abilite´des utilisateurs sont analyse´s et mis en perspective. Contrairement a`l'argument courant selon lequel la publication e´lectronique entraıˆne une baisse de qualite´, cet article pre´sente des sce´narios pour le futur syste`me de controˆle de la qualite´. Il est tre`s probable que se de´velopperont des syste`mes mixtes combinant des e´le´ments anciens et nouveaux, sous diffe´rentes formes pour les diffe´rents domaines de recherche. Zusammenfassung

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The death of biomedical journals

Cited by 113 publications

References 7 publications

A indústria de publicação contra o acesso aberto

A indústria de publicação contra o acesso aberto

Rethinking the peer review process

Quality control in academic publishing: challenges in the age of cyberscience

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