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November 21, 2007
Deal Will Lead to More Open-Access Journals
Sage, with more than 485 titles and the world’s fifth-largest publisher of academic journals, announced on Tuesday that it would join with the Hindawi Publishing Corporation to produce a suite of fully open-access journals. Hindawi already publishes more than 100 such journals, in science, technology, and medicine.
In the partnership, Sage will be responsible for the editorial development, marketing, and promotion of the new journals. Hindawi will oversee submissions, the peer-review process, and final publication. Articles will be freely available online, and authors will be charged for publication. —Andrea L. Foster
Posted on Wednesday November 21, 2007 | Permalink |Comments
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Interesting that Sage is only willing to experiment with house money, i. e. new journals. Still, an experiment is at least a modest sign of proaction, something we do not always see from the publishing industry.
I tip my hat to them.
Charles Hofacker
Professor of Marketing
Florida State University
— Charles Hofacker Nov 21, 03:11 PM #
The era of scholarly communication based on subscription journals is drawing to a close and slowly it is dawning on publishers that they will need to change or die.
— David Nov 21, 03:40 PM #
While I support many of the ideals of Open Access publishing, I am tired of peer-reviewing for journals that I cannot afford to publish in as a scholar. E.g., BioMed Central’s journals charge authors an article processing charge ranging from $515 to $2,470. Their rates are lower than many other publishers. (See http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/apccomparison/). Such fees hamper scholarship, especially in fields that are not heavily subsidized by grants or industry funding. We need a better solution than shifting costs onto authors, which simply creates new inequities.
— James DuBois Nov 21, 04:11 PM #
Open access might lower the total system cost but the burden of payment only shifts within the institution from the library to academic departments. No matter in what system, functions, like editing, peer reviewing, formatting, etc., need to be funded. Further, even the most well known open access publications have not been able to reach financial stability. The new scholarship is not a one-size-fits-all system but a myriad of different alternatives. As more information becomes available, vetting that information will afford the time-saving needed by researchers to foster creative solutions. Academics do not want to test the validity of every chunk of content. For Sage, this is just another business venture.
— Thomas Bacher Nov 21, 04:41 PM #
I think it is important to note that there are society publishers (who generally publish very cost effective journals) and commercial publishers (who are largely responsible for the complaints about the “exorbitant costs of journals”).
Does it really make sense for content producers to bear the entire cost and not expect users to contribute anything? For a better solution, please consider journals with small author charges and small subscription costs, such as the Journal of Neuroscience and Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
— Dana Roth Nov 21, 06:21 PM #