I think the two follow, which are basically librarianship journals,
but have a very wide scope, would consider this. Neither have a
publication fee.
"First Monday"
I unfortunately do not know the editors of either, but they're the two
of highest reputation in my field. I am however not in the least
sure that academic sociologists will consider either as very
prestigious.
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli(a)concordia.ca> wrote:
Hi Piotr,
Your dilemma is one I sympathize with and struggle with myself. The route I
am thinking of following myself is the "hybrid journal" format: a
traditional paid journal that will enable certain articles open access for a
fee.
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).
Teaching Sociology is not in the Sage Choice program, but I dare say that if
you could raise $3,000 in publishing fees, you could negotiate a special
deal with Sage to release an article open access. Of course, I'm only using
Teaching Sociology and Sage as examples, since that is the journal you
mentioned; I would think that many other publishers would be flexible to
negotiate a special arrangement, as long as you pay the bounty. Money talks,
after all.
~ Chitu
Piotr Konieczny a écrit :
Dear all,
I have just finished my second "teaching with Wikipedia" article. I'd
like to publish it in an established academic journal that, if possible,
supports open content. Unfortunately, I do not have much experience with
this sector of the journals (teaching/education/pedagogy journals), nor
with journal impact magic, and thus I'd very much appreciate your
suggestions where to publish. I have, of course, quickly Google'd few
open content teaching journals, but I admit, selfishly, that entering
the job market, I'd prefer my CV to include, if possible, higher-end
journals...
(In my sociology field, the most respected educational journal,
"Teaching Sociology", is, sadly, not open content...).
If anybody is interested in reading and commenting on my article in
question (tentatively titled "Wikis and Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool:
Five Years Later"), I have made it available on Google Docs (just let me
know and I'll send you a link, and enable commenting for your account).
PS. My old 2007 article (titled, unsurprisingly, "Wikis and Wikipedia as
a Teaching Tool") was published here:
http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_07/article02.htm
I am still content with it for what it was in 2007, but by 2011, it is,
I'll be the first to admit it, rather obsolete.
_______________________________________________
Wiki-research-l mailing list
Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l