Martin Paul Eve: How ironic are the open access irony awards?

ab1630's bookmarks 2017-12-15

Summary:

"I saw, going around on Twitter today, a 2012 article on the Open Access Irony Awards. This site is dedicated to the practice of humorously exposing articles/editorials that are pro-open access, but locked behind paywalls. As someone who has written in support of OA in closed venues, I wanted to quickly write to ask: what is so ironic about this practice?....I don't really hold with the whole "OA irony" stuff. Sure, it's great to point out that it isn't open (and this enhances the power of point #3 above) but make sure you're not shooting the messenger. There are good reasons to advocate for OA in closed venues."

Link:

https://www.martineve.com/2013/10/21/how-ironic-are-the-open-access-irony-awards/

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Tags:

oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.strategies oa.paywalls oa.humor

Date tagged:

12/15/2017, 12:09

Date published:

12/15/2017, 07:09