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Why not open-access journals? : Comments

By Nattavud Pimpa, published 1/5/2012

The power academic journals hold is incredible and it does not seem that academics have done enough to challenge their power.

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Now some publishing companies (i.e. Springer) offer a choice of open-access to the authors but they will charge hefty publication fees (i.e. $3,000 per paper). Ridiculous.
Posted by lupita, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 7:25:37 AM
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Another problem is none of our Universities will quickly consider open-access journals because most vice chancellors may not have enough 'knowledge' and 'experience' about this form of publication.
Posted by lupita, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 7:32:25 AM
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From Springer's Website

"Customers providing payment from the Americas will be charged in US$; customers providing payment from Europe, Africa, and Asia will be charged in EUR. VAT is not included in the price and will be added, at a standard rate, for customers who receive invoices in Euros.
The open access publication fee does not replace any existing journal policies publication costs to be paid by the author, which are billed separately (e.g. surcharges for color in print, oversized articles, etc.)."

I will never understand those are willing to pay for this.
Posted by lupita, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 7:48:37 AM
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The danger of open-access journal is its quality. My university will never accept it because most open-access journals do not have a proper quality control system, unlike traditional journals.
Posted by moburne, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:00:51 AM
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Professor Pimpa, you argument is timely! I am disgusted by the power of the international publishing houses. They can't control the flow of knowledge when the cost of production is as low as 30 cents per one copy of journal. Open-access is the way to go for all academics.
Posted by EdnaSmith, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 6:38:25 PM
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Thank You.
Posted by moburne, Thursday, 3 May 2012 2:21:43 PM
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This would seem to be a step in the right direction.

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120502-0000139/Wikipedia-co-founder-to-help-UK-government-with-free-access-research-database

http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/05/03/rundle-the-other-media-story-that-dwarfs-the-news-fiasco/

"The UK government announced that it would be making all research papers generated within its public universities available openly, online, for free."

It's good that a stand has finally been taken against this rort. It has always staggered me that work accomplished with taxpayers' money is then hijacked by private enterprise for their own monetary gain. Pure extortion.
Posted by Pericles, Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:33:47 PM
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It seems the academic journals face being in the same situation as record companies and film distributors have in recent years… The all pervasiveness of the interwebinetiverse making previous models of publication and distribution obsolete.

Just as the sciences adapt their models of reality to new situations and evidence so the scientific journals will have to adapt themselves or face oblivion. If only because Google Scholar (check it out if you haven't already) is well positioned to pounce on such an opportunity.

Questions of standards and rigour, as well, as peer review, will sort themselves out – though the process won't always be edifying, it can be guaranteed to be entertaining…

Witness the way commentators on OLO 'sort out' article authors who richly deserve it.
Posted by WmTrevor, Friday, 4 May 2012 6:43:59 AM
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What Open-access is lacking is the proper peer-review system which has long well-established in academic world. Most 'Chinese' open access journals are the business for some unqualified academics to showcase their work.
Posted by lupita, Friday, 4 May 2012 8:49:52 AM
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Also, I found a study shows the growth of OA publishing during the period 1993–2009. During the last year an estimated 191 000 articles were published in 4769 journals. Since the year 2000, the average annual growth rate has been 18% for the number of journals and 30% for the number of articles. In 2009 the share of articles in OA journals, of all peer reviewed journal articles, reached 7,7%. Overall, the results document a rapid growth in OA journal publishing over the last fifteen years. It's growing!
Posted by lupita, Friday, 4 May 2012 8:59:27 AM
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