2/ Science works by peer review. But, you can have critical peers without journals.
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you should differentiate between journals and publishers, journals provide a frame for a research area, and editors do the job, for free
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What about Open Source journals? There's starting to become shift towards publishing in these in Archaeology/Humanities in the UK.
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I think the shift is def happening. But the institutional inertia and extant work counter mass is powerful!
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4/ Journals are dealers in a market for research *and* status.
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9/ As an social institution, journals have more in common with fucking Freemasonry than the principles of the Enlightenment.
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13/ PDF is basically one step-removed from sharing images with respect to semantic extraction.
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3/ Why don't they go away?
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5/ If they don't buy something from you, you won't last long in academia.
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7. And for you to do work, your university must buy PDFs of extant research from them.
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