著名期刊Philosophy & Public Affairs宣布集体辞职，成立新开放获取期刊！

过去三十年来，学术期刊受困于营利性出版商的所有权，这些出版商利用其垄断地位大幅提高价格，给订阅图书馆带来了沉重负担，并使其他机构和个人无法获得研究成果。最近兴起的作者资助的“开放获取”模式只会加剧学术不平等，因为资源较少的学者无法支付使他们的工作免费公开的费用；这也激励了商业出版商尽可能多地出版文章，从而施压严谨的期刊削弱或放弃其质量控制。

公开信原文（中文在下方）

2024/05/22

The following is a statement from the executive, associate, and advisory editors and all the members of the editorial board of Philosophy & Public Affairs.

We are unanimously resigning from our editorial roles at Philosophy & Public Affairs, published by Wiley, and launching a new diamond open-access journal published by Open Library of Humanities (OLH). All of us will play the same editorial roles in the new journal and will retain the aim of publishing the best philosophical work touching on matters of public importance.

We take this step because we believe that scholarly journals—including our own—serve important purposes, and that these purposes are not well-served by commercial publishing. For three decades now, academic journals have suffered from their ownership by for-profit publishers, who have exploited their monopoly position to sharply raise prices, unduly burdening subscribing libraries and shutting out other institutions and individuals from access to research. The recent rise of the author-funded “open access” model has only reinforced academic inequality, since scholars with access to fewer resources are unable to pay the fees that make their work freely accessible; it has also incentivized commercial publishers to try to publish as many articles as possible and so to pressure rigorous journals to weaken or abandon their quality controls.

Faced with this conflict between purpose and business model, we have decided to embrace the purpose and move to an alternative model.

The alternative—which our librarian colleagues have been urging for some time—is for libraries, universities, and other academic institutions to offer direct support for the publication of open-access journals, which are guided by independent scholarly judgment and freely available for authors and readers. We are delighted to have found precisely this model at OLH, an award-winning diamond open-access publisher supported by a consortium of libraries and funding agencies.

If diamond open-access journals are so good, why are they not already dominant? Partly because we all have day jobs and transitions take time. In addition, our careers depend on publishing in journals with name recognition, reputation, and high impact factors. These publications are now typically owned by commercial publishers. Colleagues often cannot afford to take a chance on untested journals. This is why, as editors of one of the leading journals in our field, we feel a strong responsibility to move toward a new, better, arrangement.

Our plan, if Wiley permits it, is to complete the reviews for all revised submissions received prior to this announcement. We apologize to authors who recently submitted manuscripts to Philosophy & Public Affairs, and we recognize the especially high cost to authors who have been revising their manuscripts, but who have not yet resubmitted. We very much regret these costs but saw no realistic way to avoid them. We hope to make the new journal worthy of these costs.

We plan to launch the new journal (whose name will be announced shortly) and begin accepting submissions in September 2024. Please send us your best work in moral and political philosophy and adjacent fields, take note of our migration in your hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions, and encourage your colleagues to do the same.

We are excited to embark on this new adventure. We hope you share our excitement and join us in making this new venture a great success.

Signed,

Outgoing Executive Editors

• Jonathan Quong, University of Southern California, USA
• Patrick Tomlin, University of Warwick, UK

Outgoing Associate Editors

• Arash Abizadeh, McGill University, Canada
• Nico Cornell, University of Michigan, USA
• Garrett Cullity, Australian National University
• Marc Fleurbaey, Paris School of Economics, France
• Johann Frick, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Joe Horton, University College London, UK
• Sophia Moreau, University of Toronto, Canada
• Kristi Olson, Bowdoin College, USA
• Japa Pallikkathayil, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Gina Schouten, Harvard University, USA
• Zofia Stemplowska, University of Oxford, UK
• Adam Swift, University College London, UK

Outgoing Advisory Editors

• Charles R. Beitz, Princeton University, USA
• Joshua Cohen, Apple University, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Alan Patten, Princeton University, USA
• Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto, Canada
• Seana Shiffrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• R. Jay Wallace, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Outgoing Editorial Board

• Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, USA
• Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University, USA
• David Estlund, Brown University, USA
• Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
• Barbara Herman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Pamela Hieronymi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Frances Myrna Kamm, Rutgers University, USA
• Niko Kolodny, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Jeff McMahan, Oxford University, UK
• Liam Murphy, New York University, USA
• Debra Satz, Stanford University, USA
• Samuel Scheffler, New York University, USA
• Amartya Sen, Harvard University, USA
• Tommie Shelby, Harvard University, USA
• Amia Srinivasan, Oxford University, UK
• Jeremy Waldron, New York University, USA
• Stuart White, Oxford University, UK
• Gideon Yaffe, Yale University, USA

公开信中文翻译

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以下是《哲学与公共事务》杂志的执行、助理和顾问编辑以及所有编委会成员的声明。我们一致决定辞去在由威利出版的《哲学与公共事务》中的编辑职务，并将与开放人文学科图书馆（OLH）合作，创办一本新的钻石开放获取期刊。我们所有人将在新期刊中继续担任相同的编辑角色，并保持发表涉及公共重要事项的最佳哲学作品的目标。

我们采取这一步骤是因为我们认为学术期刊——包括我们自己的期刊——服务于重要的目的，而这些目的并没有通过商业出版得到很好的服务。过去三十年来，学术期刊受困于营利性出版商的所有权，这些出版商利用其垄断地位大幅提高价格，给订阅图书馆带来了沉重负担，并使其他机构和个人无法获得研究成果。最近兴起的作者资助的“开放获取”模式只会加剧学术不平等，因为资源较少的学者无法支付使他们的工作免费公开的费用；这也激励了商业出版商尽可能多地出版文章，从而施压严谨的期刊削弱或放弃其质量控制。

面对这种目的与商业模式之间的冲突，我们决定拥抱目的并转向另一种模式。替代模式——我们的图书馆同事已经呼吁了一段时间——是图书馆、大学和其他学术机构直接支持开放获取期刊的出版，这些期刊由独立的学术判断指导，对作者和读者都免费开放。我们很高兴在OLH找到了这种模式，这是一家由图书馆和资助机构联盟支持的获奖钻石开放获取出版商。

如果钻石开放获取期刊如此优秀，为什么它们还没有占据主导地位呢？部分原因是我们都有日常工作，转变需要时间。此外，我们的职业生涯依赖于在具有知名度、声誉和高影响因子的期刊上发表文章。这些出版物现在通常由商业出版商拥有。同行往往无法承担在未经考验的期刊上冒险的风险。这就是为什么，作为我们领域内领先期刊的编辑，我们感到有强烈的责任向一种新的、更好的安排迈进。

如果威利允许，我们计划完成所有在此公告前收到的修改稿的审稿工作。我们向最近向《哲学与公共事务》提交稿件的作者表示歉意，并认识到那些正在修改稿件但尚未重新提交的作者所面临的特别高的成本。我们非常遗憾这些成本，但没有看到避免它们的现实途径。我们希望使新期刊值得这些成本。

我们计划于2024年9月启动新期刊（名称将很快公布）并开始接受投稿。请向我们提交您在道德和政治哲学及相关领域的最佳作品，请在招聘、任期和晋升决策中注意我们的迁移，并鼓励您的同事这样做。

我们很高兴踏上这一新的冒险旅程。我们希望您能分享我们的兴奋，并与我们一起使这一新事业取得巨大成功。