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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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
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Quick review and decision times for authors<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Speedy, continuous-publication online format<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Global distribution of your research via SAGE Journals Online, including enhanced online features such as:
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public usage metrics, comments features, subject categories, and article ranking and recommendations<o:p></o:p></p>
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$395 introductory author acceptance fee (discounted from the regular price of $695)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dana L. Roth</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Omega Alpha Open Access<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 11, 2012 8:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org; sparc-oaforum@arl.org; Caroline Porter<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings. I have just updated my blog <<a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/">http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/</a>> for your interest.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>A few Religious Studies articles showing up in SAGE Open open access “mega journal”; reviewers being solicited</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><<a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/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/</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/" target="_blank" title="SAGE Publications">SAGE Publications</a> to be a reviewer for their new open access journal, <a href="http://sgo.sagepub.com/" target="_blank" title="SAGE Open"><i>SAGE Open</i></a>. He had never
heard of <i>SAGE Open</i>. He wanted to know what this was all about.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As always, your comments (posted to the post) are welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gary F. Daught<o:p></o:p></p>
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