Gualtiero Piccinini (Missouri/St. Louis) writes:
I’d love to see philosophers discuss open access philosophy journals.
Some observations: (1) In many sciences, some of the most prestigious journals are now open access.
(2) In philosophy, only one open access journal (Philosophers’ Imprint) has a good enough reputation to be ranked among the 20 best philosophy journals (as per the ranking recently published in Leiter Reports); the top philosophy journals remain the usual ones.
(3) Some commercial publishers, such as Bentham, are now trying to establish for profit, open access philosophy journals, but their quality is questionable.
High quality, open access philosophy journals seem to be both desirable and feasible – witness Philosophers’ Imprint, not to mention the many prestigious open access journals in other fields. Why aren’t there more prestigious open access philosophy journals? Why haven’t open access journals been able to threaten the dominance of the old philosophy journals in the way they have done in other fields?
