On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > Yes and no. We're on our way but funding is tight. There are a lot of articles recently about why so many journals are behind a paywall, and most of it has to do with funding. We have zero funding here at UMass (well, not exactly true - I get the department to pay for hosting fees outside the institution, but I don't get paid a cent and neither does anyone else). Our library pays for Berkley Press (BEpress) for our journal, which is great... but I'd rather use a fully open system (but the library had already set up everything with BEpress so it was easier to get us listed in databases and they assured me I could use any license I want). (yes our journal is CC-BY-SA). > > 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. > No - and honestly it could have been $500, I'm not really sure. I just know it was a LOT. At the end of a thesis, they gave me a site for paying for copyright and printing. The CC one was WAY more expensive (it was the copyright fee of $50 plus extra money), and at the time I was just in a hurry to get it done and graduate (I was already in a PhD program and needed it done so my credits transferred). Either way, the system wasn't in place - I know many institutions have come a LONG way. Such as UMass, which regularly encourages students to publish with CC licenses (via the Library, because they have institutional support - just not enough to get us copy editors). -- best, Zach ------------------------ Zachary J McDowell Doctoral Candidate Communication Studies Department University of Massachusetts Amherst Wikipedia Teaching Fellow<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Writing_As_Communication_Spring_2012>
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