RE: Tenure and journals (RE: Elsevier profit)

[Tom Williams <twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu>]

I guess we're finally figuring it out.  The majority of these publishers
pick professionals, often well known in their fields, to be on their
editorial boards.  Clearly, this is a tremendous benefit to the publishers
as they then have these academic and administrative leaders supporting
their company to the hilt.

This will make the changes (and they will come) more difficult since these
entrenched people aren't going to give up their cushy board seats easily.  
It will add a wrinkle here and there but the momentum has already started
to revise the process.

-- 
Thomas L. Williams, AHIP
Director, Biomedical Libraries 
University of South Alabama
College of Medicine
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twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu