open access sociology (or, publishing doesn’t need paywalls and doesn’t have to take forever) – scatterplot

"So, what’s the moral of the story? I don’t think every paper should or can be published as quickly as this one, and I don’t think Sociological Scienceand SocArXiv are the right solution for every part of our collective publishing problems. But we can collectively do better, and these institutions are a good start. By posting working papers, discussing our work in open venues, and publishing in journals without paywalls, we can (to borrow a couple phrases from Kieran Healy) make our work 'literally accessible' in order to do 'sociology in public'. Doing open access sociology has the potential to make our work better and more influential"