Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands.
Endeavour. 2023 Dec;47(4):100885. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100885. Epub 2023 Nov 18.
Twenty-first-century discourse on science has been marked by narratives of crisis. Science is said to be experiencing crises of public trust, of peer review and publishing, of reproducibility and replicability, and of recognition and reward. The dominant response has been to "repair" the scientific literature and the system of scientific publishing through open science. This paper places the current predicament of scholarly communication in historical perspective by exploring the evolution of the scientific journal in the second half of the twentieth century. I focus on a new genre of scientific journal invented by Dutch commercial publishers shortly after World War II, and on its effects on the nature of the scientific life. I show that profit-oriented publishers and discipline-building scientists worked together to make postwar science more open, while also arguing that formats of scientific publication have their own agency.
二十一世纪的科学论述以危机叙事为标志。据称，科学正经历着公众信任、同行评审和出版、可重复性和可复制性以及认可和奖励等方面的危机。占主导地位的反应是通过开放科学来“修复”科学文献和科学出版系统。本文通过探讨 20 世纪后半叶科学期刊的演变，从历史角度看待当前学术交流的困境。我专注于二战后不久由荷兰商业出版商发明的一种新的科学期刊类型，并探讨其对科学生活本质的影响。我表明，以盈利为目的的出版商和学科建设的科学家们合作使战后的科学更加开放，同时也认为科学出版物的格式也有其自身的作用。
