Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Bioethics. 2011 Feb;25(2):57-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01878.x.
This article by one of the Editors of Bioethics, published in the 25th anniversary issue of the journal, describes some of the revolutionary changes academic publishing has undergone during the last decades. Many humanities journals went from typically small print-runs, counting by the hundreds, to on-line availability in thousands of university libraries worldwide. Article up-take by our subscribers can be measured efficiently. The implications of this and other changes to academic publishing are discussed. Important ethical challenges need to be addressed in areas such as the enforcement of plagiarism-related policies, the so-called 'impact factor' and its impact on academic integrity, and the question of whether on-line only publishing can currently guarantee the integrity of academic publishing histories.
本文由《生物伦理学》的编辑之一撰写，发表在该期刊 25 周年特刊上，描述了过去几十年学术出版所经历的一些革命性变化。许多人文学科期刊从典型的小印刷量（数百册）转变为全球数千所大学图书馆的在线提供。我们的订户对文章的接受程度可以有效地衡量。讨论了这些变化和其他学术出版变化所带来的影响。在执行与剽窃相关的政策、所谓的“影响因子”及其对学术诚信的影响，以及仅在线出版目前是否能保证学术出版历史的完整性等方面，都需要解决重要的伦理挑战。
