{"id":7467,"date":"2015-04-08T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2015-04-08T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:34:05","slug":"are-academic-journals-becoming-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7467","title":{"rendered":"Are academic journals becoming obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jason-schmitt\/academic-journals-the-mos_1_b_6368204.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0on the continuing debate about the role and future of academic journals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Jason Schmitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It does seem to me a bit of a vicious circle. The only publications that &#8216;count&#8217; are those published in peer review journals and yet the knowledge\u00a0that they share\u00a0is only available\u00a0to an elite few &#8211; those who happen to belong to an institution who can afford to pay the subscription fees. \u00a0Also,\u00a0with the review and publication process taking so long, I wonder how &#8216;new&#8217; (in today&#8217;s instant internet world) the new knowledge shared in these journals\u00a0really is?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Any comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article\u00a0on the continuing debate about the role and future of academic journals. Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology in History by Jason Schmitt It does seem to me a bit of a vicious circle. The only publications that &#8216;count&#8217; are those published in peer review journals and yet the knowledge\u00a0that they share\u00a0is only available\u00a0to an elite few [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[312],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-1Wr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}