In 1965 a former editor of The Lancet, Sir Theodore “Robbie” Fox, published /Crisis in Communication/, which outlined the functions and future of medical journals. Over 50 years later this book still has lessons for scholarly publishing. Sir Robbie argued that ‘newspaper journals’, which are primarily edited with readers (rather than authors) in mind “will still be indispensable in our system of communication”. In 2021 the Nature journals will offer submitting authors of primary research papers the option of publishing Open Access. The presentation will outline the three routes for publishing OA in Nature journals and will emphasise the need for an ecosystem in which selective journals can flourish, for the benefit of both authors and readers.

Crisis in Communication: the Functions and Future of selective Journals

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