Department of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) Journal Review

Abstract

Overview of the work of the Faculty Senate Scholarly Communication Task Force regarding inaccessibility and lack of sustainability of current publication model. Report includes three tables listing journals in which HDFS faculty have published in recent years, publisher, cost, impact factors and whether the journals are published by scholarly societies versus for-profit publishers. Shows clearly that impact factor is unrelated to the journal cost and that some of the most expensive journals have the lowest impact.