Taxacom: mdpi soliciting

[Fred Schueler]

On 1/29/2025 10:59 AM, Frank T. Krell via Taxacom wrote:

> ...so called predatory journals (of which I get at least one, sometimes five a day)

* I wonder if these predatory journals, combined with the profits of the 
big commercial publishers, and the fees of $37.53 to read a 2 paragraph 
note published in 1943, don't combine to suggest a new model of 
scientific publishing?

With the internet, I don't see why any study couldn't be posted in a 
blog by its authors, both as straight text and as a pdf, and reviews 
solicited from both known colleagues and via mailing lists. The reviews 
would be entered as comments on the blog, and then the ms revised in 
accordance with them, and then reposted as published.

Societies or departments could host these blogs, with minimal oversight, 
or individuals could have their own. This would transfer the 
responsibility for revision from an editor to the author(s). Published 
pdfs would be collected by libraries and individuals, and posted in 
sites like Researchgate, and then traded around among individuals.

I've sort of done this with a couple of papers...

Schueler, Frederick. 2015. Anecdotes of Hibernal Anoxia. Trail & 
Landscape 49(2):44-49. - Anecdotes of Winter Rivers devoid of Oxygen. 
Ontario Rivers Alliance Blog, January 18th, 2015 - 
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontarioriversalliance.ca%2Fanecdotes-winter-rivers-devoid-oxygen-frederick-schueler%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cb1b8635425c94cd7661008dd4091ce20%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638737720192922731%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JIJiDANIOOReqCigRo53H4liHabAuu9daznMITATXVU%3D&reserved=0 


Schueler, Frederick W., and Aleta Karstad. 2017. In A Drought, July 
Showers Bring May Calling. Trail & Landscape 51(3):132-134. published 
version of 
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doingnaturalhistory.com%2F2017%2F05%2Fin-drought-july-showers-bring-may.html&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cb1b8635425c94cd7661008dd4091ce20%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638737720192957319%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5qRTtK%2BWkdLZsJL4M%2FDC5pqriodDjkDf5YZRZ4n2Zqg%3D&reserved=0 


...and I think I'm triggered now to put a publications section in our 
website.

The dreadful loss academia would suffer from this would be the absence 
of any status of the journals works are published in, so tenure and 
promotion committees would have - gasp! - to read and evaluate the 
publications of their candidates, rather than depending on the status of 
the journals the works are in.

fred.
Research Curator.
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