[InetBib] Lektüreempfehlung: Alternativen zum commercial science publishing

["Dr. Karolin Bubke" <karolin.bubke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen,

einen absolut lesenswerten Artikel finden Sie hier:
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Winter, Stefan (2012):* What Do Journals Do? -- Voluntary Public Goods 
and the Doomsday of Commercial Science Publishing (December 14, 2012). 
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2189631

*Abstract: *
Commercial (and non-commercial) science publishing has evolved as a 
solution to a number of problems in the market for research results. It 
has reduced transaction costs by bringing together authors and readers, 
which is just the simple advantage of market intermediaries. It has 
delivered added value to readers by filtering out bad work. It has added 
value to authors by delivering signals of high quality work. It has 
added value by sorting, relieving readers from the necessity to identify 
relevant work in some field of interest. And it has contributed to the 
value of published work by delivering guidance from reviewers to 
authors. But technological changes already have and will continue to 
erase the value of these services. These services can be provided in 
much better quality and at much lower costs via open access science 
networks like SSRN. All we need to make this work are some simple 
technical improvements and a few new but simple modes of peer 
interaction. My conjecture is that commercial science publishing will 
not survive for more than a couple of years.

Prof. Winter hat an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum den Lehrstuhl für Human 
Resource Management inne.

Viele Grüße aus Bochum und viel Spaß bei der Lektüre
Karolin Bubke

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