[Corpora-List] Surprisingly large MI scores

[John F. Sowa]

Geoffrey,

I certainly believe in the importance of refereed journals, but
neither the authors nor the reviewers get paid for their efforts.
Yet the cost of the journals has become so prohibitive that even
research libraries can't afford to subscribe to more than a few.

In 1999, I attended a conference in the Netherlands, where some
people during a coffee-break discussion noted that university
libraries had discovered a very simple way to balance their
budgets:  cancel all subscriptions to journals published in
the Netherlands.

Since then, Springer has bought up most of them.  But the
costs are still rising.

We must definitely preserve the reviewing process and make it
very clear whether a document has been reviewed by a respectable
authority (such as the ACL) or it has come from somebody's blog.

Some funding is necessary to cover the editorial costs, but the
connection of the reviewing and editorial process to a for-profit
journal has become a deterrent to making research studies *public*.

John



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