Guest Post - Space and Grace in Open Access Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-05-05

Summary:

"What I usually meant by defaulting to open was that you should look for an open option first. My co-authors and I did that and we ran out of [gold] options quickly. It reminded me that in some fields and in regard to some topics, defaulting to [gold] open might be a list of one or two journals, or it might still be a list of none — not to mention all the hurdles inherent with trying to get an article published in a single particular journal. My experience with this one article reminded me that I need to listen more carefully to the experiences of my colleagues and the pressures of their fields. It can indeed be that options for open publishing remain limited in particular fields or for those with no access to institutional or philanthropic funding...."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/05/05/guest-post-space-and-grace-in-open-access-publishing/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.fees oa.obstacles oa.lis oa.journals

Date tagged:

05/05/2021, 08:42

Date published:

05/05/2021, 04:42