HENRY

This is an excellent post on how to boycott locked-down academic journals. It goes beyond the usual pro-open-access arguments and suggests ways that we can all help promote open-access journals, without jepeordising our careers.

One of the best, and easiest suggestions is this -

All scholars: Go out of your way to cite articles from open-access journals. One of the best ways for a journal to build its reputation is for its articles to be cited broadly. Read open-access journals and cite them. Oh, and while you’re at it, if you have a choice between citing a living author and a dead one, support the living one. The young scholar at Santa Cruz who’s extending Durkheim’s argument needs the cite more than Durkheim. Don’t forget that citations have politics and you can vote for the future with your choice of citations.

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Simon Greenhill