Taxacom: open access journals

[Lynn Raw]

In the article they say that quality publishing is expensive. That is only the case with paper publishing. Open Access is by its very nature an online only digital format far less expensive to provide than the older print journals and with no extra costs for colour. It seems the whole process of using citation and other indices rather than the actual quality of the content is a commercial profit driven hoax promoted by the publishers for the benefit of their executives and shareholders. It also gives university administrators numbers that they can understand whether or not they have any idea of the content. Even the highly esteemed Nature sometimes publishes suspect papers. Open access is the ideal low cost publishing system for societies as the only cost lies in the website maintenance and development, web server operation and maintenance of the domain registration. 
At the moment I am running a small scale OA journal at NO COST to the authors so the model can operate with the right support and volunteers whatever argument is given against it. Obviously it is not a commercial for profit model but it is something that can meet a need for both authors and users of scientific articles.

Lynn Raw
Independent Researcher & Editor



> On 31 Jul 2023, at 21.15, Michael Heads via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
> 
> I've criticised the new 'Open Access' publishing model for journals as a
> scam, and here's a new article in J. Biogeogr. against it (note that it
> doesn't mention publishing scientists who are amateur or retired):
> 
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1111%2Fjbi.14697&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cf50684916edc4ae113f208db9207fc55%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638264335213597402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=NGi5JUeglTbtUrdzI%2Fy6SQjRKwwiLTF8L8KYRkrGBF0%3D&reserved=0
> 'Shifts to open access with high article processing charges hinder research
> equity and careers'
> 
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> My books:
> 
> *Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis/CRC, Boca
> Raton FL. 2017.
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FBiogeography-and-Evolution-in-New-Zealand%2FHeads%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9781498751872&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cf50684916edc4ae113f208db9207fc55%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638264335213597402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b5TSP8CpEW00yCvcwKC%2B6ZKLeO8aTC6%2FtPS5SX4kGUI%3D&reserved=0
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> 
> *Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
> Press, Cambridge. 2014. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2F9781107041028&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cf50684916edc4ae113f208db9207fc55%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638264335213597402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SBN%2BMf292rbxDaV%2FAI4azecCxt6Ks37YRL91L2R%2B5I0%3D&reserved=0
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> 
> *Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
> Berkeley. 2012. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucpress.edu%2Fbook.php%3Fisbn%3D9780520271968&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cf50684916edc4ae113f208db9207fc55%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638264335213597402%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VAWeCKlPg0ynnPBf5hp1Zc2LRa2NEJMQVeRC9iQvq5g%3D&reserved=0
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> 
> *Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
> New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
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