Two questions that come to mind are: 1) What is the APS's position on this issue, and, 2) Am I right to assume that APA's closed approach to their article's accessibility mean that an author can't make their article available on their website, or otherwise.
Joan > Thanks for checking and reporting on this, Chris. Given that that amount > is twice what it costs to publish in PLOS ONE > (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/publication-fees), one wonders whether > APA's open access approach it is worth the money. > > Miguel > > ________________________________________ > From: Christopher Green [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 2:40 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] Peer review video > > 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 > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > > On Jul 25, 2017, at 2:06 PM, Miguel Roig > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 > cant imagine that policy lasting too much longer. > > Miguel > > From: Christopher Green [mailto:[email protected]] > 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 dont 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 dont 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° > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > orcid.org/0000-0002-6027-6709<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6027-6709> > ... > > On Jul 25, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Miguel Roig > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > 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<mailto:leave-51100-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > > 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<mailto:leave-51101-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > > 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<mailto:leave-51102-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c12d&n=T&l=tips&o=51103 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-51103-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-51103-1632838.7e62b84813297f170a6fc240dab8c...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752d0d&n=T&l=tips&o=51104 > or send a blank email to > leave-51104-49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. 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