On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli(a)concordia.ca> wrote:
Hi Piotr,
I looked up Teaching Sociology, and found that they
are in the Sage journals
family. Sage recently launched a hybrid policy, called "Sage Choice":
http://www.sagepub.com/sagechoice.sp. This describes what I'm talking about:
if the author pays the bounty to release an article from journal jail, the
publisher will gladly go open access--for that article only. Sage's rate is
$3,000. Other journal prices I've seen are typically in the $2,000 to $3,000
range per article. This is the fair market price of publishing in a
high-quality open access journal (e.g.
http://www.plos.org/journals/pubfees.php).
I'd say avoid Sage if at all possible. They are one of the publishers
involved in this craziness:
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for…
Sage is one of the publishers (along with Cambridge and Oxford) suing
a university over copyright infringement and asking for an injunction
that would essentially obliterate fair use at that university.
-Sage (not the publisher!)