[GOAL] A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited

[Omega Alpha Open Access]

Greetings. I have just updated my blog <http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/> for your interest.
 
A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited
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The other day I received an email from a librarian colleague who is also a scholar in New Testament. He considers himself an “under-employed Ph.D.,” by which I gather means having the academic credentials but not a full teaching position. I don’t know the circumstances of his situation, but I do know he is not alone. Professorships in Biblical Studies are notoriously difficult to come by.
 
His email was interesting on a number of levels. He was asking, as someone who is trying to establish himself “as a competent scholar,” why he should consider open access instead of trying to get his articles accepted in “well-known and prestigious journal[s].” He was also curious about copyright issues with open access.
 
These are important questions that I want to follow-up with in a subsequent post. In this post, however, I want to write about the specific situation that prompted his questions. A couple of weeks ago he received an unsolicited invitation from SAGE Publications to be a reviewer for their new open access journal, SAGE Open. He had never heard of SAGE Open. He wanted to know what this was all about.
 
As always, your comments (posted to the post) are welcome.

Gary F. Daught
Omega Alpha | Open Access
http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com
oa.openaccess @ gmail.com
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