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 <piokon(a)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/cita…
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
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein < <isalix(a)gmail.com>
isalix(a)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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