Replacing academic journals

Autor(en)

Björn Brembs, Philippe Huneman, Felix Schönbrodt, Gustav Nilsonne, Toma Susi, Renke Siems, Pandelis Perakakis, Varvara Trachana, Lai Ma, Sara Rodriguez-Cuadrado

Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)

Physik Nanostrukturierter Materialien

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Regensburg, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Karolinska Institute, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, University of Thessaly, University College Dublin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Journal

Royal Society Open Science

Band

10

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

2054-5703

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230206

Publikationsdatum

07-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508016 Wissenschaftskommunikation, 102015 Informationssysteme

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

General

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4f27e2a3-7bda-45d8-afc9-d9988522788b