[IRTalk] Journals should compete for funding, too

Dr Leti Kleyn Leti at assaf.org.za
Thu Jun 13 09:33:59 SAST 2019


Journals should compete for funding, too<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9e3e7b7d2&e=ba31e2f257>
Imagine a scientific journal in which readers don't pay for access, authors don't pay for publication and reviewers are paid for each report. That's how things are done at Swiss Medical Weekly, which pays its bills thanks to a consortium of academic and medical bodies that has evaluated the journal's qualities. The journal's director, neuropathologist Adriano Aguzzi, describes how a system in which funders award competitive grants directly to journals<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c3de0f68a3&e=ba31e2f257> could help to usher in open access without creating perverse incentives to publish more papers.
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