[Insight-users] OPEN ACCESS: Economics

[Stuart Golodetz]

Luis Ibanez wrote:
>
> "Why academics, for example, are wiling to accept the bizarre
>  system in which they contribute to peer review journals for free,
>  sometimes even paying a publication fee, and then have their
>  institutions buy this work back from the printers at exorbitant
>  rates remains a mystery"
>
>
>                                                      Yochai Benkler

I'd always thought the idea was that journals perceived as "prestigious" 
could get away with charging academics to publish their papers because 
having published papers is of benefit to the academics concerned in 
terms of their career prospects (essentially a case of short-term pain 
for long-term gain, as far as academics are concerned). Strikes me as 
being a daft way of going about things, but there it is. Are there other 
reasons I'm missing? :)

Cheers,
Stu

>
>       Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard,
>       and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and 
> Society.
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>
> Text excerpt from
> "The Coase's Penguin: Linux and the nature of the Firm"
> http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
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