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

Have you thought about publishing it at WikiSym? It's not a journal, but it's an excellent conference.

Hi Piotr,

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).