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, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
http://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 <isalix(a)gmail.com
<mailto:isalix@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#Act…
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
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