what Piotr wrote. If you're a scholar at a research-driven institution, the chances are you are required to publish in SSCI (JCR) journals. The typical OA fees for the journals listed there are 1,000-2,000 USD.
dj On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Piotr Konieczny <pio...@post.pl> wrote: > The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For > example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, > sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are > green open access? Zero. > > WMF grants exist to make research easier, but they also should take into > consideration the realities of academic publishing. Personally, I hate to > think that my research goes to support parasites like Elsevier and their > ilk, but if I publish in the green open access journals I respect, well, my > evaluation from the university bureaucrats will not be very respectful to > me. So publishing my wiki research in such venues is not an option. > > Of course, you may say that in such case I should not ask for WMF grants > at all, but I do not think that we should penalize researchers who are in > fields like sociology - it is not their fault that the OA movement hasn't > made much inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's > going OT). Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its > dissemination in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too. > > -- > > Piotr Konieczny, > PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus > > On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any > description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly > librarian to find a journal that meets your needs. > > cheers > stuart > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein < <isa...@gmail.com> > isa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work >> that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy, >> that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants >> to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I >> recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose >> scope was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote >> to WMF to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper >> was under the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay >> for OA publishing. >> >> Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience? >> >> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy >> [2] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Activities >> >> Make a great day, >> Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing > listWiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- __________________________ prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i grupy badawczej NeRDS Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://n <http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl/>wrds.kozminski.edu.pl członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego autorstwa http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010 Recenzje Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml Pacific Standard: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/ Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia The Wikipedian: http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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