[Reading-hall-of-fame] outrageous prices of books & journals,

[Stephen Krashen]

Let's start changing things.1. Hall of Famers please consider publishing in open access journals -this will gradually increase their status.Yes, some are predatory but many are not.2.  When we serve on review committees, state that the criteria is quality of work, not "prestige" of the journals.3. Write shorter papers. This means more room in the journals, and it makes it easier for colleagues to read your papers and therefore cite them and thereby increase the prestige of the journal.. And it makes it easier for review committees to actually read papers written by candidates for promotion. 4. Post your own articles on your website for free download. Many of you are doing this already.  Mine are at www.sdkrashen.com. If you already do this, please share the information with others.
Other fields are way ahead of us, eg Math, led by Fields Medal winner Tim Gowers - see. Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices.

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The scandal extends to edited books, as many of you know. Prices are so outrageous and nobody will read your paper. 
Attached a (short) paper on why we need to write short papers.  Like everyone on this listserv, I get requests to review articles for journals all the time. About five years ago, I started telling the editors I would be happy to review but only articles 5 pages or less. I have not reviewed a single paper since that time.
We can start changing this.  
   
  
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