Hello,
I think it is a good move that Wikimedia research adopts an open access publishing policy.
But it is true that the high-ranking SSCI journals tend to be traditional ones and that "gold open access" journals have problems getting into SSCI and are in many fields not present at all. In my view there is a reason for it: ISI Thomson's evaluation process is not transparent and it is itself a capitalist/traditional publisher with vested interests in corporate publishing... Things do change in this respect a bit - but very slowly...
There are quite some open access journals that make profit and conduct commerce by charging (partly very high) article processing charges (APCs). Few researchers can afford such fees (only if you are at a rich university, which most people aren't, which especially disadvantages also researchers in developing countries). So I wonder why Wikimedia does not rule out such unfair licences that discriminate and says that publication in journals using APCs is not welcome.
It would be better to add that there should be a preference for non-profit journals - what can be called "diamond open access" journals. Green and gold open access is not enough - we need diamonds to make the open access world shine...
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/502
Best, Christian
On 09/07/2016 09:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Piotr Konieczny, 29/06/2016 07:38:
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.
Uh? I sampled a few journals from http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=SS&... and all of them allowed green OA (according to http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php ). Maybe you meant that none of them is gold OA?
Reminder: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access
Nemo
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