On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Halfacree K.H.
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> Hi everyone
>
> A quick question. What do folks think of the following arrangement?
I take it this is a for-profit publisher attempting to monetize open access?
My personal opinion only, but it feels a bit perverse to be paying to
allow wider access to my work. I'd probably opt either to publish in a
not-for-profit open access journal, or to just submit the final
content (the pre-publication draft; not the final PDF) to my
institutional repository. Many institutions, including mine, are in
the process of adopting open access policies that encourage the
latter.
Bruce
> “Open access publishing proposes a relatively new model for scholarly
> journal publishing that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access
> to the full-text of all published articles. Open access allows all
> interested readers to view, download, print, and redistribute any article
> without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's
> work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model…. In an open
> access model, the publication costs of an article are paid from an author's
> research budget, or by their supporting institution, in the form of Article
> Processing Charges (APC). APCs replace subscription charges and allow
> publishers to make the full-text of every published article freely available
> to all interested readers. In addition, authors who publish in our open
> access journals retain the copyright of their work…”
>
> Personally, I’m unsure. APC of c.250 pounds and having a very very limited
> ‘research budget’, versus the great benefits of open access…
>
>
>
> Cheers, and now back to marking…. Keith
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