Freakonomics & Open Source Research

[Owen Densmore]

http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2005/12/07/the-economist-preston- 
mcafee-is-trying-to-do-some-good/

     -- Owen

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[Tom Johnson]

A good piece.  Be sure to drill down into the links for Preston McAfee work.

For the relative cost of academic journals, see also
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/exhibits/stickershoc
 <http://www.englib.cornell.edu/exhibits/stickershock/>
--tj

On 12/8/05, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

>
> http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2005/12/07/the-economist-preston-
> mcafee-is-trying-to-do-some-good/
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
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>
>
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[Russell Standish]

I'm not sure charging for editorial services would really do the
trick. Cancelling journal subscription (which is actually happening in
this country) would have a greater effect - even then since that's
actually happening without much influence on journal prices, one does
wonder.

In the meantime, perhaps we can consider university policies of
charging for articles published in expensive journals - this is bound
to be unpopular, as publishers won't pay, so academic research budgets
will need to foot the bill. But it would focus academic minds on
whether a particular journal does represent value for money, and
encourage the use of not-for-profit journals. And such funds could be
used for paying for said expensive journals.

We could also charge for refereeing services - if enough academics did
this, journals would presumably have to cough up, or see their quality
suffer.

Cheers

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:20:04AM -0700, J T Johnson wrote:

> A good piece.  Be sure to drill down into the links for Preston McAfee work.
>
> For the relative cost of academic journals, see also
> http://www.englib.cornell.edu/exhibits/stickershoc
>  <http://www.englib.cornell.edu/exhibits/stickershock/>
> --tj
>
> On 12/8/05, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2005/12/07/the-economist-preston-
> > mcafee-is-trying-to-do-some-good/
> >
> >      -- Owen
> >
> > Owen Densmore
> > http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org
> >
> >
> >
> > ============================================================
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe
> > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
> >
>
>
>
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> ==============================================
> J. T. Johnson
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> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com               tom at jtjohnson.com
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
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