Strategies for Promoting Open-Access Publishing | Age of Engagement | Big Think

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Over the next month, I am going to be exploring the advantages of open-access publishing in a series of posts, focusing specifically on the fields I know best, communication and political science. Not only do these fields serve as valuable case studies for highlighting the cultural and financial barriers to moving to an open-access model, but they also offer the opportunity to spotlight the avant-garde and innovators who are leading the shift to open-access journals. Today, I start by reflecting on my own recent experience with open access publishing....Among the feedback generated [from our OA journal article], we received an email from a public health professional in California with a very valuable insight about a follow-up to our research approach. This was not someone we would have been able to engage otherwise and none of the reviewers on the paper caught this either. We should have thought of the suggestion ourselves, since its something we often teach our students, but overlooked it...."

Link:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/23096

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.comment oa.ssh oa.obstacles oa.political_science oa.journals oa.strategies oa.publishing oa.communication

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 16:33

Date published:

08/31/2010, 13:05