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You will get much more visibility, especially from younger scholars who turn to Google before they go to the library
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Universities: Support your faculty in creating open-access journals on your domains. You are respected institutions. The bandwidth cost of hosting a journal would be much less than allowing your undergrads access YouTube. Support your faculty in creating university-branded journals and work with them to run conferences and do other activities to help build the reputation of such nascent publications. If it goes well, your brand will gain status too.
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Gideon BurtonAwesome explanation / discussion of Open Access with a great list of suggested action for academics of all stripes
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When it comes to the trafficking of scholarship, much has changed since the journal system was created. There used to be a day when scholars would read everything new that was published in their field, or at least everything published in the top journals. The path to success was to publish in the top journals because it was assumed that everyone in the field would read it. For most fields, this is no longer the case. Young scholars are not indoctrinated into a field by reading every issue of the top journals. They are more likely to search for articles related to their topics of interest than to browse a few top journals. Being present in library catalogues and key databases is critical to visibility. Publishing in the top journals still increases one's likelihood of visibility and citation, but it's more about status now.
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Gosia Stergiosopen-access is the future
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Pru Mitchelldanah's dilemma sparks lots of discussion. "I was forced into signing all sorts of papers that forbade me from uploading pre-prints for a year."
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Lisa Spirodanah boyd's declaration that she will no longer publish in non open-access journals
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edtechtalkjm: a bit "inside baseball", but an interesting take on academic publishing and "open" access
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Jennifer Maddrelljm: a bit "inside baseball", but an interesting take on academic publishing and "open" access
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Michel BauwensSage is one of those archaic academic publishers who had decided to lock down its authors and their content behind heavy iron walls. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form, you'll probably never get to read the cleaned up version.
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M McBride"I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I'd like to ask other academics to do the same."
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Julia Lesagea cogent argument for an important cause; given the international reach of the Internet, anyone concerned for the spread of knowledge should make their writing available free to as many people as possible
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