Shoot the hostage movie#

I need three reviewers so I send out at least six asks. When trying to find reviewers I usually have to ask twice as many people as I need. Tessier: ItвЂ™s hard to convince people to review because itвЂ™s unpaid work and thatвЂ™s always been the case. UA: Is it normally difficult to find peer reviewers for Lingua articles?Дr. This is no longer a viable method for research dissemination if we have to bargain as to which of the journals weвЂ™re going to be able to subscribe to. Several people had mentioned to me that their universities were considering just not buying subscriptions to Elsevier journals anymore for the same reason вЂ“ that it was cost prohibitive. You reach out to people and say, вЂњCan you review this paper for Lingua?вЂќ Increasingly people said, вЂњHonestly, IвЂ™m not willing to review for Lingua or submit work there anymore because I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s reasonable to support a model where the research winds up so monetized.вЂќ

UA: Had you as editors and active researchers in the field heard any complaints from your researcher-colleagues about this problem?Дr. The editors of that journal famously jumped ship from their Elsevier published journal to start a new open access journal, Glossa. Update, 1 July 2016: When I asked about whether this strategy does anything but harm authors, Erin McKiernan mentioned that this seems to have helped bring the matters to the former editors of Lingua. IвЂ™m disappointed to see people trying to use the same lever of refusing to review manuscripts to try to change journal policy: Update, 26 February 2016: The attention has turned to pre-prints following the ASAPBio meeting this month. ThereвЂ™s a reason cops donвЂ™t shoot hostages outside of action movies. Shooting the hostage makes for great drama, but such a single-minded вЂњget the bad guy by any means necessaryвЂќ approach may not be desirable. Convince colleagues that there are better venues than those journals. (Besides, if I put my name on the list but then reviewed for an Elsevier journals, who would know? Reviews are typically confidential.) I still think the best strategy is slow strangulation. IвЂ™ve written before that I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s fair to refuse to review a paper because I donвЂ™t like the journal. You wonвЂ™t find my name on that boycott list - yet. I complement Jonathan for considering other points of view. He was convinced otherwise, as youвЂ™ll see by visiting the post. He suggested that scientists not вЂњpromoteвЂќ any article in an Elsevier journal: no blogging, no tweeting, no journal club. Jonathan Eisen went even further towards the вЂњshooting the hostageвЂќ strategy. The Cost of Knowledge website is gaining traction with its call to not вЂњsupportвЂќ Elsevier journals. Do anything that is bad for Elsevier, even if a few other researchers get harmed along the way. The strategy of some scientists to take down for profit publishers, notably Elsevier, keeps edging closer to shooting the hostage.

HeвЂ™s using her for cover heвЂ™s almost to a plane.

Shoot the hostage movie#

The movie Speed opens with this memorable dialog between two cops: