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标题：The future of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health in the era of open science
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作者：Burdorf A ; Härmä M
期刊名称：Scandinavian journal of Work, Environment and Health
印刷版ISSN：0355-3140
出版年度：2019
卷号：45
期号：3
页码：215-216
DOI：10.5271/sjweh.3826
语种：English
出版社：National Board of Occupational Safety and Health
摘要：Scientists live in interesting times. Some colleagues have argued that a considerable proportion of scientific articles is simply research waste. It is proposed that we should produce less but better research that provides unequivocal answers to societal needs. At the same time, funding agencies and users of scientific information are very vocal in requiring scientific research to be accessible to all levels of society. The Open Science movement has taken this one step further with the Plan S initiative, which pushes for all scientific research funded by public grants to be published in "Gold" (or 100%) open access journals. While we support the principle of accessibility – as evidenced by the high percentage of unlocked articles we publish and that all our content is open access after two years – this new era of Open Science poses several challenges for a non-commercial, niche journal like the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. Simply put, without significant support from alternative sources, open access journals need to publish at a high rate to offset lost income from subscriptions. Journals like PLOS One or BMJ Open publish many thousand articles per year. With the current speed of publications, it may be questioned whether we too should adopt a similar policy and simply publish all submitted research of good quality.
关键词：accessibility; editorial news; open access; open science; publishing