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Tuesday, August 07, 2001
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/buckholtz.html Returning Scientific Publishing to Scientists by ALISON BUCKHOLTZ ...Scientific communication is increasingly driven by factors that have little to do with researchers and more to do with commercial publishers' profits. Even amid talk of the Internet-driven rise of scientific publishing, the researcher and the lab -- where scientific communication originates -- seem to be forgotten entirely. Restoring the researcher in research publishing requires long-term, cultural shifts to right the balance in favor of the scientist. To stimulate this process, SPARC has published Declaring Independence: A Guide to Creating Community-Controlled Science Journals. Declaring Independence (a handbook and a Web site) outlines for editors and editorial board members of commercial journals how to determine whether a journal is serving its community....
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