Forced Migration Current Awareness: New Migration Journal: Free Content but not OA

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-03-23

Summary:

"The inaugural issue of a new journal, Migration Studies, is now available.  The editors explain the journal's remit in their introductory article, 'Faultlines and contact zones: A new forum for Migration Studies.'  Contents for vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2013) include a mix of articles, one of which is 'When refugees stopped being migrants: Movement, labour and humanitarian protection.' Happily, all articles are freely available, and according to the editors, content will continue to be free to view online until the end of 2014.  That said, if offering free content is recognized as a good thing to do for two years, wouldn't it be even better to go the Open Access (OA) route and offer free content indefinitely - particularly in view of the journal's stated aims of providing 'a service to scholarship' and 'strengthening dialogue across professional divisions'?  The intro. does hint that other delivery mechanisms might be under consideration: 'There is no rush to limit either the scope of our content or the range of production tools we use to deliver it, particularly in light of the rapid rate of change in publishing technology today. We are already adapting to these changes, for example, by reviewing films, databases, websites, and other new-media sources relevant for twenty-first-century migration researchers, practitioners, and teachers—in addition to traditional books.' The journal will be free to view online until the end of 2014, and we are developing other ideas for delivering web-based content. Oxford University Press, the publisher of Migration Studies, does produce a handful of fully OA titles ..."

Link:

http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-migration-journal-free-content-but.html

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oa.new oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.peer_review oa.humanities oa.oup oa.announcements oa.ssh oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/23/2013, 11:20

Date published:

03/23/2013, 07:20