[GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access

[Reckling, Falk, Dr.]

I think there is still a misunderstanding with Gold OA. Running a OA journal does not necesserily mean to charges article fees!

Take Economics as an example: meanwhile there are some good OA journals, most of them are new but with very prominent advisory boards (which is a good predictor of being successful in the long run)

a) E-conomics (institutional funding):
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/

b) Theoretical Economics (society based funding): http://econtheory.org/

c) 5x IZA journals published with SpringerOpen (institutional funding):
http://journals.iza.org/

d) Journal of Economic Perspective (a former subscription journal but now society based funding):
http://www.aeaweb.org/jep/index.php

All of them are without APCs, and that model also works in many other fields. 

What is needed is a very good editorial board and a basic funding by an institution/society, or by a consortium of institutions or by a charity or ...

Or why not considering a megajournal in the Humanities and apply a clever business model as PEERJ tries it right now in the Life Science?: http://peerj.com/ 

In the end, it is up to the community to develop models which fit their needs ...

Best Falk




Am 26.07.2012 um 12:09 schrieb "l.hurtado at ed.ac.uk" <l.hurtado at ed.ac.uk>:

> The question isn't whether they're free or not, but whether they play  
> major roles as venues and outlets for important Humanities  
> scholarship.  And also it's still the case that traditional print  
> journals involve long print cues and delays in publication.  And also  
> it's the case that university libraries paying ridiculous subscription  
> charges for journals in the Sciences have less funding for monographs  
> (still the gold standard in Humanities), and even put pressure on  
> Humanities to cut their journals.
> Finally, there is the concern that the current move to "gold OA" with  
> pages charges, etc., will adversely affect Humanities scholars.
> So, please, no snap and simple replies.  Let's engage the problems.
> Larry Hurtado
> 
> Quoting Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski63 at gmail.com> on Wed, 25 Jul  
> 2012 22:53:06 +0200:
> 
>> Is more than sixteen thousand free e-journals in the humanities and
>> social sciences of any importance in this discussion?
>> 
>> http://www.scribd.com/Jan%20Szczepanski
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2012/7/25  <l.hurtado at ed.ac.uk>:
>>> Webster concisely articulates the concerns that I briefly mooted a few
>>> days ago.
>>> Larry Hurtado
>>> 
>>> Quoting Omega Alpha Open Access <oa.openaccess at gmail.com> on Wed, 25
>>> Jul 2012 11:03:30 -0400:
>>> 
>>>> Hat Tip: Let’s not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access
>>>> http://wp.me/p20y83-no
>>>> 
>>>> Nice article this morning by Peter Webster on the Research Fortnight
>>>> website entitled "Humanities left behind in the dash for open
>>>> access."
>>>> <http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1214091> Check  
>>>> it
>>>> out.
>>>> 
>>>> Webster observes that much of the current conversation around the
>>>> growth of open access focuses on the sciences and use of an
>>>> “author-pays” business model. He feels inadequate attention in the
>>>> conversation has been given to the unique needs of humanities
>>>> scholarship, and why it may be harder for humanist scholars to
>>>> embrace open access based on the “author-pays” model.
>>>> 
>>>> "There is no Public Library of History to match the phenomenally
>>>> successful Public Library of Science."
>>>> …
>>>> 
>>>> Your comments are welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> Gary F. Daught
>>>> Omega Alpha | Open Access
>>>> Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
>>>> http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com
>>>> oa.openaccess @ gmail.com | @OAopenaccess
>>>> 
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