This is the general concept. Is it true? With a commercial and arbitrary selection procedure for selection of journals, how can this be true?
Dear Saumendu... That is the question. Very very good question, indeed. In my opinion, we the scientist have to make an effort in order to promote our publications in open access sources. My own strategy is to use both ways for publishing, using ISI impact factor for argumenting my "quality", but also other indexes, as google scholar, open access data bases, even social networking indexes... as Researchgate, for instance. The more we use these second strategy, the more "private scientific power" will lose its significance. Let's do it!
Dear Saumendu... That is the question. Very very good question, indeed. In my opinion, we the scientist have to make an effort in order to promote our publications in open access sources. My own strategy is to use both ways for publishing, using ISI impact factor for argumenting my "quality", but also other indexes, as google scholar, open access data bases, even social networking indexes... as Researchgate, for instance. The more we use these second strategy, the more "private scientific power" will lose its significance. Let's do it!
Excellent question and answer. But are we alone in thinking this way? it is highly time that scientists remember that science exists first and foremost for the common good, not to assure the prosperity of a state (against others, usually), as the cognitive capitalism would like us to think (see this OP http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/opinion/want-to-boost-the-economy-invest-in-science.html?_r=0). Open Access is one of the solution, a deep rethinking of knowledge economy and its faults is another. This scoop-it is about Open science in general, en Frecnh and English: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-ouverte.
A new type of metrics: http://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/article-level-metrics
Congratulation and thank you so much, Florence. I have learned two new sources of knowledge. I can show you two, my profile in google scholar, a good way to performance oneself: http://scholar.google.es/citations?user=EG3sXgoAAAAJ&hl=es
Do you know academia.edu? Or Mendeley.com? Social networking is actually, as you know, some kind of "tsunami". I hope in three of four years we can live in a more "democratic" scientific world.
And also show you the repository of my own company: http://www.eismethods.com/red-eis/acceso-al-cat%C3%A1logo-redeis.html For upload your own papers you only have to sign up.
Thanks Andres and Florence for your views and yes according to me also , its high time we move towards Open access in order to bring scientific developments for the benefit of the world in order to make the world a better place to live and not for economic development of a few ...... I would also say let"s do it...
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