I make the distinction between gold open-access and platinum open-access.
Author fees + free to reader = gold open access
No author fees + free to reader = platinum open access
This discussion, I think, demonstrates that this distinction is significant and
worthy of a separate appellation.
Jeffrey Beall, Metadata Librarian / Associate Professor
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Reckling, Falk, Dr.
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:53 AM
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for
open access
I think there is still a misunderstanding with Gold OA. Running a OA journal
does not necesserily mean to charges article fees!
Take Economics as an example: meanwhile there are some good OA journals, most
of them are new but with very prominent advisory boards (which is a good
predictor of being successful in the long run)
a) E-conomics (institutional funding):
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/
b) Theoretical Economics (society based funding): http://econtheory.org/
c) 5x IZA journals published with SpringerOpen (institutional funding):
http://journals.iza.org/
d) Journal of Economic Perspective (a former subscription journal but now
society based funding):
http://www.aeaweb.org/jep/index.php
All of them are without APCs, and that model also works in many other fields.
What is needed is a very good editorial board and a basic funding by an
institution/society, or by a consortium of institutions or by a charity or ...
Or why not considering a megajournal in the Humanities and apply a clever
business model as PEERJ tries it right now in the Life Science?:
http://peerj.com/
In the end, it is up to the community to develop models which fit their needs
...
Best Falk
Am 26.07.2012 um 12:09 schrieb "l.hurt...@ed.ac.uk" <l.hurt...@ed.ac.uk>:
> The question isn't whether they're free or not, but whether they play
> major roles as venues and outlets for important Humanities
> scholarship. And also it's still the case that traditional print
> journals involve long print cues and delays in publication. And also
> it's the case that university libraries paying ridiculous subscription
> charges for journals in the Sciences have less funding for monographs
> (still the gold standard in Humanities), and even put pressure on
> Humanities to cut their journals.
> Finally, there is the concern that the current move to "gold OA" with
> pages charges, etc., will adversely affect Humanities scholars.
> So, please, no snap and simple replies. Let's engage the problems.
> Larry Hurtado
>
> Quoting Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepansk...@gmail.com> on Wed, 25 Jul
> 2012 22:53:06 +0200:
>
>> Is more than sixteen thousand free e-journals in the humanities and
>> social sciences of any importance in this discussion?
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/Jan%20Szczepanski
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/25 <l.hurt...@ed.ac.uk>:
>>> Webster concisely articulates the concerns that I briefly mooted a
>>> few days ago.
>>> Larry Hurtado
>>>
>>> Quoting Omega Alpha Open Access <oa.openacc...@gmail.com> on Wed, 25
>>> Jul 2012 11:03:30 -0400:
>>>
>>>> Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open
>>>> access http://wp.me/p20y83-no
>>>>
>>>> Nice article this morning by Peter Webster on the Research
>>>> Fortnight website entitled "Humanities left behind in the dash for
>>>> open access."
>>>> <http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template
>>>> =rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1214091> Check it out.
>>>>
>>>> Webster observes that much of the current conversation around the
>>>> growth of open access focuses on the sciences and use of an
>>>> "author-pays" business model. He feels inadequate attention in the
>>>> conversation has been given to the unique needs of humanities
>>>> scholarship, and why it may be harder for humanist scholars to
>>>> embrace open access based on the "author-pays" model.
>>>>
>>>> "There is no Public Library of History to match the phenomenally
>>>> successful Public Library of Science."
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Your comments are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Gary F. Daught
>>>> Omega Alpha | Open Access
>>>> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and
>>>> theology http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess @
>>>> gmail.com | @OAopenaccess
>>>>
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