[Air-L] open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals

[Christian Nelson]

The post that started this thread spoke of journals that were open  
source both in terms of open access and editorial control. That's why  
I addressed it.

On Feb 8, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Christian Nelson wrote:
>> We're still talking about open-source journals that would utilize
>> some sort of reader rating system to make editorial decisions, right?
>> Why would powerful academics leave the current set of journals, over
>> which they have total editorial control, for journals over which they
>> would have considerably less control, considering that journal
>> article publication is the main source of academic capital for most
>> scholars? No one ever gives up power willingly.
>
> Why should we assume that successful open access journals would  
> involve
> any of that?  I see no reason to think that open access has  
> anything at
> all do do with "reader rating systems".
>
> --Jimbo
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