Is Open Access Enough? Strategies for Healthier OA. | ACRLog

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-11-16

Summary:

"I’m a salesman, and the hardest part of my job is encouraging people to buy. As a Digital Scholarship librarian I manage the Institutional Repository (IR) and peddle Open Access (OA) to students and faculty, who, despite enthusiasm in our field are sometimes skeptical about web based and OA resources. For a long time, librarians have championed OA in the light of the greater good that access will provide. We very often cite the evidence that OA increases impact factor and citation counts for our faculty, while librarians like Char Booth show the ways in which OA empowers students to publish and contribute to larger scholarly conversations. Unfortunately, in the recent past we’ve seen high profile rejections of the OA model. The most notable of these is the American Historical Association’s recommendation against OA deposit of History Theses and Dissertations.This has been debated and framed as 'protecting the most vulnerable' in the academic profession. Inherent in this is a distrust of the open access model as a legitimate form of scholarship (despite arguments to the contrary). Anecdotally, I hear stories of faculty discouraged from publishing open access because of the lesser prestige associated with these journals."

Link:

http://acrlog.org/2016/11/12/is-open-access-enough-strategies-for-healthier-oa/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lterrat's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.repositories

Date tagged:

11/16/2016, 20:33

Date published:

11/16/2016, 15:33