A Vision of Scientific Communication
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) has published Recommendations on the Future of Scholarly Publishing. They represent a core set of policies the BBAW as a whole has officially agreed upon, albeit not without heavy and lingering dissent among its members. At the outset I was skeptical that the interdisciplinary research group drafting these recommendations would find any common ground – for the diversity of the publication formats and models and the heterogeneity of the disciplines and their representatives was immense. I was also wondering whether it is even desirable or necessary. Why not let every discipline find its own way? Fortunately, as it stands, this ...
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