Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

Mario Pagliaro

doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0057.v2

Preprint Article Version 2 Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed

Version 1 : Received: 2 October 2019 / Approved: 6 October 2019 / Online: 6 October 2019 (04:20:12 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 5 December 2019 / Approved: 6 December 2019 / Online: 6 December 2019 (04:16:26 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 13 February 2020 / Approved: 16 February 2020 / Online: 16 February 2020 (14:30:09 CET)
Version 4 : Received: 1 June 2020 / Approved: 3 June 2020 / Online: 3 June 2020 (05:37:03 CEST)
Version 5 : Received: 18 August 2020 / Approved: 20 August 2020 / Online: 20 August 2020 (09:48:21 CEST)

Scholarly journals today are the products of a large industry comprised of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, whose annual income exceeds $25 billion. Originally created for facilitating scientific communication, the World Wide Web in principle makes scientific journals no longer necessary. Yet, in an almost opposite fashion to what happened in retail publishing, the academic publishing industry has further flourished following the advent of the internet. Education of today’s students and young researchers, we argue in this study, is the key enabler for the transition to open science.

scientific publishing; science journals; academic publishing; open science

Social Sciences, Education

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Received: 6 December 2019
Commenter: Mario Pagliaro
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author

Comment: Improved version of the original study after useful peer review at an open access journal.

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Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

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