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.
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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.
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience?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.
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