Open AccessPublishing the data behind the data (Show me yours, I'll show you mine)
Author(s) -
Leng Gareth
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physiological reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 2051-817X
DOI - 10.14814/phy2.12186
Subject(s) - publishing , ethos , scientific misconduct , data sharing , public relations , internet privacy , political science , computer science , medicine , law , alternative medicine , pathology
Since the inception of Physiological Reports , the Editorial Board, together with our owners, The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society, have been debating how to develop this journal in ways to better serve our community and our science.The integrity of scientific journals was once safeguarded by academic communities – either directly, by the ownership and management of journals by learned societies, or indirectly, by academic institutional decisions about library subscriptions. The explosive growth of open access journals, with the entry of new for‐profit publishers, has threatened to undermine this model; it is now clear that some new open access journals are little more than vehicles for vanity publication with ineffective peer review (Bohannon 2013). This is perhaps the …