Dear all,
It was not my purpose to start a debate about commercial vs non commercial OA
journals, I just wanted to point out that the meaning of OA is not the same
for
different communities and different areas in the world, while in Europe,
Australia or USA, institutional repositories are the main route to reach OA,
in other zones like LAC countries the meaning of OA is related mainly to free
access to journals, and it is the most understood road to OA, however IRs
implementation begins to be a collaborative and regional goal that it is going
to to be greatly supported by different kind of institutions and
organisations.
It is my impression, after being working with those countries in OA issues
during last 2 years under the umbrella of NECOBELAC project
Good morning
Reme
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l 01/11/2011 19:44, Matthew Cockerill escribió:
Is the problem really with commercial publishers?
Non-commercial subscription-based journals surely create every bit
as much of an access barrier as commercial subscription-based
journals. And high-quality commercial open access journals can and
do deliver just as good value to the research community as
high-quality non-commercial open access journals.
Under the open access model , no one is 'locked in'. Authors are
free to submit to whichever journal offers them the best combination
of prestige, service and value. In practice, that seems as likely to
be a commercial journal as a non-commercial journal.
Matt Cockerill
BioMed Central
> From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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> open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Dana Roth
> Sent: 31 October 2011 22:24
> To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
> Subject: Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam
>
> Reme brings up an excellent, if unstated, point ... commercially
> published OA journals like commercially published subscription
> journals are the problem ... not the society/non-commercial OA and
> subscription journals.
>
> Dana L. Roth
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> From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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> open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Reme Melero
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> To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org
> Subject: Re: Fool's Gold Journal Spam
>
> El 30/10/2011 17:03, Stevan Harnad escribió:
>
>
> Not only is it regrettable that OA is so unthinkingly identified
in
> most people's minds exclusively with gold OA publishing, but this
> growing spate of relentless fool's-gold junk-OA spamming is now
> coalescing with that misconception -- and at the same time more
and
> more universities and funders are reaching into their scarce funds
to
> pay for this kind of thing, thinking this is the way to provide
OA.
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I am also an OA supporter, but I do not agree 100% with this
afirmation, because the situation depends also on different areas of
the world, for instance in Latinamerican and Caribbean countries
(LAC) , gold OA exists for years (even if their journals were not
called OA journals, in fact most of them are "gratis journals") but
the repositories landscape is an emerging area, in fact there are
very few institutional repositories. However, projects like Scielo,
Redalyc or Latindex that have been working for years with journals
editors successfully. So, there are diverse OA landscapes, and
depends on where you are the route to achieve OA could be different,
said that I have also to say that I do not agree with paying 3000
dollars or euros to publish a paper, but in mostly LAC journals,
authors do not pay any fee to publish a paper.
Good morning form the Mediterranean side.
Reme
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Reme Melero
CientÃfico Titular CSIC
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Avda Agustin Escardino 7, 46980 Paterna, Valencia Tel 963900022 ext
3121 www.accesoabierto.net
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Reme Melero
CientÃfico Titular CSIC
IATA
Avda Agustin Escardino 7, 46980 Paterna, Valencia
Tel 963900022 ext 3121
www.accesoabierto.net
