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Free/Open-Access Academic Journals Growing

Posted by samzenpus on from the share-the-knowledge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired News reports on the growing number of free/open-access academic journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals lists 1527 journals. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is launching three new open-access journals this year: PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens. The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Public Access Policy is also part of the movement. The traditional academic journals aren't happy, saying that it's unethical to accept money for publishing. But the traditional journals face their own ethical dilemmas by accepting money from advertisers."

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  1. Test them for vetted submissions by robogun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Generate one automagically here and see if it is accepted.

    1. Re:Test them for vetted submissions by datafr0g · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder how Prof. Brent's program would deal with these!

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  2. Re:Isn't that what research is for?-War. by aichpvee · · Score: 3, Funny

    War is what happens when too many people have reached the level cap and have all the good gear. That's when they start attacking everything in sight for loot.

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  3. Re:It's about time. But why the huge author costs? by ninjaz · · Score: 2, Funny
    So the cost of content and the cost of reviewing the content is close to zero. But some journals cost individuals and especially the institutions a large amount of money. In this day of electronic typesetting and distribution, does it make any sense?
    They have people skills. They are good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that?? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?
  4. Mod parent down! by NegativeOneUserID · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod parent down!

  5. Mod child funny! by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mod child funny!

    KFG

  6. Re:Best journal charge; weak journals dont by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For example, Annals of Physics (commercial, published by Academic Press) does charge but has a worse reputation than Physical Review (non profit) which charges a lot.

    AFAIK Physical Review has a not such a high reputation. It is a running gag among physicists that the length of the Physical Review shelf grows at a superluminal speed, but this is no contradiction to the theory of relativiy because no infomation is transmitted.