On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Zach McDowell <[email protected]>wrote:

> For example, we need more people to volunteer for OA journals (since we -
> I say we because I am an editor of communication +1 - don't have money to
> hire editors) so that our journals can compete with the pay ones.


Many university journals or journals that are part of larger, well-funded
institutions have the resources ($) to be OA. Q is how can we work with
these journals to convince them to be OA?

We also need more institutional support - my current PhD program offers
> free CC licensing for theses, but at ASU they wanted $700 to copyright my
> MA thesis with a CC-BY license. I didn't have $700, so my thesis was
> "locked" because the option wasn't there (this was about six years ago,
> they might have changed things since then, but I specifically remember
> being very irked by this).
>

This seems crazy to me. Did they give you a reason for charging you for a
CC-BY license? Presumably it would be because they would not be able to
make $ off your work after licensing it under CC-BY.
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