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Answering the fear about killing journals Stuart Shieber, The death of scholarly journals? The Occasional Pamphlet, June 8, 2009. Excerpt:
Comment. This is an excellent response that should circulate at all schools considering an OA policy. I'd only recommend that it reflect the fact, which Stuart recently confirmed, that most OA journals charge no publication fees. In the hypothetical world in which high-volume green OA puts pricing pressure on TA journals, many of those journals will convert to OA, but not all will convert to fee-based OA. There are many other business models for OA journals than charging publication fees. Likewise, in the hypothetical world in which high-volume green OA causes massive cancellations of TA journals, and libraries have correspondingly massive savings to spend on peer-reviewed OA journals, a new policy to pay publication fees will not help all or even most OA journals. The best no-fee journals will deserve support just as much as the best fee-based journals. Institutions thinking this far ahead should be thinking about how to help the no-fee journals as well, for example, through direct subsidies of cash, facilities, equipment, or personnel. |