Academic publishing empires need to go
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Conservation Biology, Science Policy
- Keywords
- open access, hybrid publishing, plan s, publishing, global south
- Copyright
- © 2018 Lehtomäki et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Academic publishing empires need to go. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27426v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27426v1
Abstract
In response to the editorial “Open access and academic imperialism” by Burgman (2018) and signed by a large group of editors, we wish to express our disappointment with such a narrow and misleading interpretations of the recent attempts to make academic publishing more open, and what consequences this might have for the global conservation community. We highlight that the current guidelines of Plan S are open for comment until Feb 1st 2019 (see https://www.coalition-s.org/feedback). Instead of calling for a more nuanced approach – something that has been done for the past 20 years – we encourage everyone to actively participate in factoring in the nuances.
Author Comment
This commentary to an editorial on Conservation Biology by (Burgman 2018) has been submitted to Conservation Biology on 2018-12-11.
Burgman M. 2018. Open access and academic imperialism. Conservation biology: the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13248.