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- Title
Solutions to the New Threats to Academic Freedom?
- Authors
Tooley, Michael
- Abstract
In my commentary on Francesca Minerva's article 'New Threats to Academic Freedom', I agree with her contention that the existence of the Internet has given rise to new and very serious threats to academic freedom. I think that it is crucial that we confront those threats, and find ways to eliminate them, which I believe can be done. The threats in question involve both authors and editors. In the case of authors, I argue that the best solution is not anonymous publication, but publication using pseudonyms, and I describe how that would work. In the case of editors, my proposal is a website that a number of journals would have access to, where papers that editors judge to be clearly worthy of publication, but whose publication seems likely to set off a firestorm of public and media protest, could be published without any indication of the journal that had accepted the paper for publication.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL ethics; PUBLISHING &; ethics; AUTHORSHIP; SCHOLARLY method ethics; AUTONOMY (Psychology); EDITORS; INTERNET; ETHICS
- Publication
Bioethics, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 4, p163
- ISSN
0269-9702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bioe.12092