Another blow for the academic publishing industry?
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Gary King describes on the IQSS blog how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University have created an open access policy in relation to any research produced by faculty members.
I don't think this will be a fatal blow at all (at all). The real issue is quality control or peer review which is not quite the same thing.I can write lots of papers and put them on a web site.Who cares? That they are published in journals is an indicator they are of some merit. So having "AER" stamped on your paper, for example, is very significant. How people access it is not important,anyway most papers are available as wp's.
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I don't think this will be a fatal blow at all (at all). The real issue is quality control or peer review which is not quite the same thing.I can write lots of papers and put them on a web site.Who cares? That they are published in journals is an indicator they are of some merit. So having "AER" stamped on your paper, for example, is very significant. How people access it is not important,anyway most papers are available as wp's.
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