Dear Ben,
Thanks for bringing this up, for some reason it went to my junk folder.
This is a very big fee for universities and scholars that are located in
"developing world" -and you are saying that even for Australia! I know that
this is an established practice for some journals, but it creates a higly
stratified sytem and hinders inclusiveness (at least in my opinion). The
publication system is already biased towards certain researchers
-minorities, women, etc. (This is a systemic, structural problem, I realize
that most people -individually-are well meaning), and such fees only make
the problem worse .
Best,
Ali
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 04:11 Ben Matthews <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
A colleague just drew my attention to the 2016 introduction of a $1000
post-acceptance fee at the International Journal of Design, which for a
young journal is a quality venue.
I know a numbers of list members are on the board, so I thought it might be
worth asking a little more about this as a practice, and/or about the
considerations that may have gone in to deciding this. I have my own
impressions, but I’m interested in others’ thoughts.
One of the great things about IJD is that it is open access, and I note the
$1000 fee is comparable to other open access fees at other journals that
are not open access by default (e.g. where you can choose to pay, as an
accepted author, to make your article freely available online). I also
appreciate that the review process takes place before there is any question
of a fee, so submission quality is assessed independently of the means of
the authors.
But I am keen to hear the list’s views on
(a) how this change may affect authors who would be likely to submit to
the journal
(b) what pressure this may place on the journal to maintain quality,
e.g. reduce output if/when submission numbers diminish (or whether
submission numbers have even declined)
(c) what considerations go into a change of this kind, and what
alternatives might be considered
(d) what the prospects are for open access journals in our field if one
such as IJD has felt the need to pass costs onto the authors, since doing
research is already expensive
(e) perhaps most crucially, what effect this may have for
representative inclusion of the many institutions and research groups,
independent researchers, and others in design who may not be able to rely
on institutional budgets or funding grants to cover publication costs such
as these, given design research is perhaps not high among many national
research funding priorities (certainly in Australia at least)
Kind regards
Ben
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The University of Queensland | Brisbane | 4072
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