Debate analysis
- HV: AuthorPays model: costs are paid for by the reader
or the reader’s institution
- HV: money ultimately comes in a large part from the government whether it comes to the institution or through the author
- BC: biomedicine which is well-funded
- contra humanities or social sciences
- contra other sciences, eg ecology
- places like East Europe which are less well-funded
researched
- BC: quality of research publishing:
- original,
- important,
- error-free and
- objective
- BC: Survival of the fittest!
- we publish irrelevant material
- journal will be damaged
- subscribers will leave that journal
- ES: "... according to this theory (BC) is middle man whose time has come and gone"
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