Brembs B et al. 2023 / Replacing academic journals. R. Soc. Open Sci. 10: 230206
After three decades of deterioration, more and more experts
consider the scholarly journal system fundamentally broken … [A new system 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
yea, yea.
Under the headline â€Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from HSTM Editors†the editors of some of the leading international journals for history and philosophy of science and social studies of science have issued a joint declaration that I received by email and that I am reprinting here to give it a larger audience.
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