MrGunn on Science AMA Series: I'm Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000Research, an Open Science publishing platform designed to turn traditional publishing models on their head. The journal is dead – discuss, and AMA - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Oct 21, 2014
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"All very good points, but when you take these concerns to funders and publishers, as I have, they say that what they do is driven by what researchers want. You see the same dynamic in the popular press. People complain about clickbait, but respected newspapers are getting more and more into clickbait from watching the success of things like Buzzfeed and Upworthy. So we have to bring about change from within. As long as the belief that you have to publish in C/N/S to get grants exists, people will still compete to publish in C/N/S. You, I, and everyone else who reviews papers or grants has to stand up against this and bring change from within."
- Mr. Gunn