The Directory of Open Access Journals is pretty comprehensive: http://www.doaj.org/
Adi On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Andre G Sirois <[email protected]>wrote: > Is there a site for OA journals, like a database? > > $700 for CC publishing...dang! Attached you will find a small guide I made > for publishing theses and dissertations at the University of Oregon. In > 2011, my dissertation was the first thesis/dissertation published under CC, > so I had to figure it out. Many have followed since, using this guide I > made. I decided to go with CC BY NC SA, only because I didn't want > commercial publishers to be able to make it into a book and sell it. > Anyway, the guide is attached and my front page. > > On a related note, I have have had several offers from publishers to > publish the dissertation as a book. I turned down several publishers > because they a) didn't allow CC publishing b) wanted to only do hardbacks > for libraries and c) offered low or no royalties. Especially disgusting was > Palgrave Macmillian; I wrote them back basically stating that nobody would > have access to the material and that I'd set a bad precedent for up and > coming academics by signing onto that stuff...you know, because we need > them more than they need us. I ended up signing with Peter Lang Publishing, > and they've agreed to paperback and CC publishing of the book. Super pumped > about the CC part. Point is, we need to publish, but stand your ground with > this book people. I thought it'd be silly to write a book about creative > networks and idea access and then have it published in a hardback where > only people at universities could get their hands on it (presuming they > even found out it existed). All royalties I'm donating to DJpedia.org, a > non-profit that stems from the research I did. > > Anyway, keep me in the fold on OA journals. I know some people here at UO > have been working on that, but not sure where they are. > > Peace, Andre > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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