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

[Dana Roth]

It seems that Sage Open is almost too reasonably priced for what they offer … but I am a science librarian who doesn’t know much about the soft sciences/humanities publishing.
This from:  http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal202037#tabview=title


  1.  Quick review and decision times for authors
  2.  Speedy, continuous-publication online format
  3.  Global distribution of your research via SAGE Journals Online, including enhanced online features such as:
public usage metrics, comments features, subject categories, and article ranking and recommendations

  1.  Professional copyediting and typesetting of your article will ensure quality
  2.  $395 introductory author acceptance fee (discounted from the regular price of $695)


Dana L. Roth
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Omega Alpha Open Access
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:34 AM
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Subject: [GOAL] A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited

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
<http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/a-few-religious-studies-articles-showing-up-in-sage-open-open-access-mega-journal-reviewers-being-solicited/>

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<http://www.sagepub.com/> to be a reviewer for their new open access journal, SAGE Open<http://sgo.sagepub.com/>. 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<http://gmail.com>
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