The Local and the Global: Puncturing the myth of the “international” journal

As an advocate for open access, David Cameron Neylon is answering to the questions: What are journals for? How well does a specific journal serve a specific community? David Cameron Neylon expresses his views on the role of the journal that should be to support the privileging of local interactions and content, and to build a community. In this sense, it is precisely those journals that claim to be “international” that are of the least value where it really matters.