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

Thu Jul 26 19:39:03 BST 2012

For funders that already have set up a Green OA mandate with an
funder-sponsored repository, it would be a relatively small additional
investment to sponsor journals.

They would not have to manage it themselves. They could put out a periodic
Request for Proposals to manage journals on their behalf. Any scholarly
publisher or start-up could compete for that business, thereby ensuring the
management is done at minimal cost.

The only thing the funder would have to do is put together editorial
boards. This is something they already do when they put together
proposal-review panels.

The result would be Gold Libre OA without author-paid fees. The cost to
research funders is likely minimal, and they would gain a significant
quality-assessment tool. In fact, these are Gold OA journals that would not
have the "vanity-press incentive" built-in when Gold OA is paid for by
authors (the so-called predatory Gold OA journals).

Would such a model be workable? Any unintended consequences? Has it been
tried anywhere?
--Eric.

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jean-Claude Guédon <
jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca> wrote:

> **
> Like Stevan Harnad, I say: enough with colours!
>
> The important thing to remember is that gold OA is not, repeat **NOT**limited to author-pay schemes. There are indeed many journals that are
> gratis to authors and libre to readers (e.g. SciELO and RedALyC journals in
> latin America and beyond). To my mind, this is the optimal version of Gold.
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
>
> Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 06:16 -0600, Beall, Jeffrey a écrit :
>
> I make the distinction between gold open-access and platinum open-access.
>
> 	Author fees + free to reader = gold open access
> 	No author fees + free to reader = platinum open access
>
> This discussion, I think, demonstrates that this distinction is significant and worthy of a separate appellation.
>
>
> Jeffrey Beall, Metadata Librarian / Associate Professor
> Auraria Library
> University of Colorado Denver
> 1100 Lawrence St.
> Denver, Colo.  80204 USA(303) 556-5936jeffrey.beall at ucdenver.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org <goal-bounces at eprints.org>] On Behalf Of Reckling, Falk, Dr.
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 4:53 AM
> To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
> Subject: [GOAL] Re: Hat Tip: Let's not leave Humanities behind in the dash for open access
>
>
> 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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