I was looking at APA's policies again just now. It looks like they will allow an author to make any article open access, but at a cost of $3000. Many researchers, of course, cannot afford this cost, even if they have a small research grant.
Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 43.773759, -79.503722 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo > On Jul 25, 2017, at 2:06 PM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu> wrote: > > > > Your point about ‘open access’ is a good one, Chris. But, my goodness, I was > not aware about that submission criterion from the APA. Given the speed with > which publishing is evolving toward a more ‘open’ format, I can’t imagine > that policy lasting too much longer. > > Miguel > > From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:11 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Peer review video > > > > Miguel, > > That is an interesting video, and it would probably be useful to > undergraduates who don’t yet quite know what a peer-reviewed scientific > journal is. However, the narrator is about a decade behind the times when it > comes to the prominence and importance of “open” journals these days. It is > an issue — a series of issues — that is becoming more complicated by the > week. > > Not only are there lots of prominent, respectable “open” (e.g., author-pays) > journals now (all the versions of PLoS and, perhaps more controversially, the > Frontiers series). A lot of the government research funding agencies have > begun to bend to the argument that, if the public paid for the research > (through government grants) then the public has a right to read it as well. > (There are all kinds of problem with this argument, but it is getting > traction where it matters — at the Cabinet table.) As a result, funding > agencies across Europe (and in Canada) are beginning to insist that research > supported by gov't funds be published in an “open” journal, or at least in a > journal that will open a certain length of time after publication (e.g., 6 > months, 1 year). Indeed, if you submit a paper to an APA journal now, there > is a box asking whether your research was supported by a list of major > international government funding agencies and, if you say “yes,” APA will not > allow you to submit your work, because APA never makes its publications > “open.” (Some “traditional” journals now allow the author to pay an > additional fee in order to make the publication “open,” but I don’t think APA > journals are among them… yet.) > > Best, > Chris > ….. > Christopher D Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > 43.773895°, -79.503670° > > chri...@yorku.ca > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > orcid.org/0000-0002-6027-6709 > ………………………………... > > On Jul 25, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu> wrote: > > > An interesting video on peer review, predatory journals, and related issues: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlBsfTx3Kc. > > Although the discussion centers largely on climate science and biomedical > sciences, I think it is a good resource for both graduate and undergraduate > students for helping them discern legitimate science and scholarship from > junk. > > Miguel > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=51100 > or send a blank email to > leave-51100-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: ro...@stjohns.edu. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c12d&n=T&l=tips&o=51101 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-51101-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=51102 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-51102-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=51103 or send a blank email to leave-51103-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
