scholarly journals The Costs and Benefits of "Open Access" Scholarship

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Review System ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The World

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences recently joined the “open access” movement, urging its professors to post their research on an open access Harvard Web site. This movement may well ensure that scholars prominent in the world of knowledge remain a dominant force, while recognition of the work of others may prove to be more difficult. Traditional scholarly journal uses a means of selection, the peer-review system, which has served as the quality control, though this system also is imperfect. Open access, while it seems like an easy panacea, has problems that deserve careful consideration.

"They Must Be Analyzed". The Theory’s Empire and the Challenge of the Transcultural Humanities

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Ewa Łukaszyk
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
New Form

Analytic practices in the humanities have been gradually transformed into a new form of symbolic oppression. Open access download and indiscriminate consumption do not automatically imply an equal active participation in the debate. Apparently, the „democratic” rules and procedures behind the production of knowledge, such as a double-blind peer-review system, are not as innocent as they seem. Andrzej Walicki has pointed out that Polish scholars may have to face continuing hindrances, which should be interpreted not only as a result of their personal insuffi ciency, but as an epiphenomenon of a global problem: they remain in the shadow of the Theory’s Empire. The necessity of creating new networks of exchange is thus evident, and so is the task of rethinking the concept of „the world” in order to guarantee participation and visibility.

scholarly journals Editors’ Note

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 661
Author(s):  
WD Heller ◽  
G Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Manuscript Submission ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Worldwide Network

AbstractWe would like to inform our readers that early next year our website will be relaunched. BeiträgezurTabakforschung International will subsequently appear on the online platform of the publishing house of De Gruyter as an open access journal. The journal will thus be integrated with a worldwide network of other journals, databases and libraries and its contents will be distributed to a global network of users. Our readers will be able to access it - as before - free of charges but they will be asked to register as a user on this platform before access can be made. Our authors are invited to submit their manuscripts using the online manuscript submission and peer review system.We would like to wish all of you a blessed Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year.

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