RT Article
T1 Solutions to the New Threats to Academic Freedom?
JF Bioethics
VO 28
IS 4
SP 163
OP 165
A1 Tooley, Michael
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1781885192
AB 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.
K1 Internet
K1 Anonymous
K1 pseudonyms
K1 Threats
K1 Freedom
K1 Academic
DO 10.1111/bioe.12092