This makes sense to me too.
I suppose the first step could be to establish a set of criteria by which
journals can be judged. I would be surprised if such a thing doesn't
already exist. I honestly don't know. Does anyone else?
Cheers.
Fil
On 7 November 2011 12:29, Erik Stolterman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Victor and list,
> Thanks Victor for introducing this issue. I fully agree with you. This is
> becoming a growing problem. The oversight of academic publication decisions
> should be in the hands of the same research community that it serves. I
> would like to support Victor's statement and hope that all of us take our
> individual responsibility when it comes to this issue.
> Erik
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> Erik Stolterman
> *http://transground.blogspot.com/
> Organizational Design Competence<
> http://www.organizationaldesigncompetence.com/>
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> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Victor Margolin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Colleagues;
> > I would like to open a discussion on this list about the growing number
> of
> > commercial conferences and on-line journals that invite participation
> from
> > scholars. A recent on-line journal from SAGE invites scholars to submit
> > their articles to a broad on-line journal on the humanities and social
> > sciences. SAGE promises peer review but doesn't give any indication of
> who
> > the peers are. We have already had a discussion about the pitfalls of the
> > Common Ground design conference and ensuing publication, both of which
> are
> > set up to separate scholars from their dollars, pounds, Euros, or zlotys.
> > The SAGE journal charges scholars $195 for publication and promises the
> > validation of a peer review and on line publication. Others are similar.
> As
> > with Common Ground, these journals publish lists of prominent scholars
> who
> > are supposedly on their advisory boards. Some of these scholars may agree
> > without thinking enough about what they are doing. Others are surprised
> to
> > find their names on such lists. These tendencies and others to come,
> fueled
> > by a growing number of PhDs who need to publish, will only confuse our
> > field and other academic fields. They are not meaningful places to
> publish
> > nor are they set up to foster discussion and debate in any particular
> > field. My own opinion is that we would be better off without them. They
> > represent a kind of inflation and meaningless activity that is not good
> for
> > the global academic economy.
> > Victor
> >
> > Victor Margolin
> > Professor Emeritus of Design History
> > Department of Art History
> > University of Illinois, Chicago
> >
>
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