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Author-side payment is only one model of open access journals. India
publishes about a hundred OA journals. Not one of
** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
> From Peter Suber's Open Access News:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/bush-vetoes-lhhs-appropriations-b
ill.html
> The headline says it all, but here's some detail from Jennifer Loven for
the Associated Press:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin
Take "postprint" to refer either to the author's final, peer-reviewed,
accepted draft or to the publisher's PDF. Unless specified otherwise, assume
that the green light to deposit the postprint pertains to the author's
final, peer-reviewed, accepted draft. That is and should be the default
option.
The practice of author payment for open access journals may work for
the hard sciences, but it presents major difficulties for various
categories of scholars, including:
(1) social sciences and humanities, where grants are smaller and
fewer than in the natural and physical sciences.
(2) gradu
European Commission Press Release PRE 057/07 (Presse) (Brussels, 12 November
2007) announces that the next meeting of Research Ministers of the European
Union will take place in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2007.
The Press Release says that the meeting will be chaired by the Portugese
Ministers
