Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: A Correlation Study of Journals Using Article Processing Charges

Morrison, Heather; Calvé-Genest, Alexis; Salhab, Jihane; Villamizar, César

doi:10.29173/cais911

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“…The functionality crisis, in turn, fuels the replication crisis, for instance by making peer-review more cumbersome and by making research data and code harder to discover, access, re-use and scrutinize. The journals propagating the replication crisis keep exacerbating the affordability crisis with super-inflationary price increases [14–16]. There are numerous other problems associated with current scholarly communication, but we consider these three to be the most pressing and that many of the others are mere consequences of the three mentioned here.…”

Section: Vicious Cyclementioning

confidence: 96%

Replacing academic journals

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Replacing traditional journals with a more modern solution is not a new idea. Here, we propose ways to overcome the social dilemma underlying the decades of inaction. Any solution needs to not only resolve the current problems but also be capable of preventing takeover by corporations: it needs to replace traditional journals with a decentralized, resilient, evolvable network that is interconnected by open standards and open-source norms under the governance of the scholarly community. It needs to replace the monopolies connected to journals with a genuine, functioning and well-regulated market. In this new market, substitutable service providers compete and innovate according to the conditions of the scholarly community, avoiding sustained vendor lock-in. Therefore, a standards body needs to form under the governance of the scholarly community to allow the development of open scholarly infrastructures servicing the entire research workflow. We propose a redirection of money from legacy publishers to the new network by funding bodies broadening their minimal infrastructure requirements at recipient institutions to include modern infrastructure components replacing and complementing journal functionalities. Such updated eligibility criteria by funding agencies would help realign the financial incentives for recipient institutions with public and scholarly interest.

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Section: Vicious Cyclementioning

confidence: 96%