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The journals crisis: redirecting the blame
1Department of Chemistry, Trinity University, 715 Stadium Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA. sbachrach@trinity.edu
Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
|March 30, 2001
Abstract:
Publishers and librarians are the usual culprits blamed for the "journals crisis", typically defined as an ever-tightening spiral of increasing serial prices and decreasing number of subscribers. An alternative viewpoint is expressed in this article-the author community bears the brunt of the blame for this situation. The glut of published articles, the surplus of journals, and the growing publication rate per academic chemist drive the crisis. Therefore, any global publication paradigm change must originate from within the author community.