Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I know that practices vary from one part of the world to another 
but all the feedback I get from most parts of the academic 
community (and I exclude the humanities) is that if a journal has 
an impact factor (and preferably a good impact factor) 
publication in it is seen as good news for promotion or tenure 
purposes and no-one cares whether it is OA or e-only (two 
different things of course). I do not think there is a 
distinction between OA publishing and "conventional" or 
"traditional" publishing. Is Nucleic Acid Research, the OUP 
journal that has gone OA entirely going lose its validity from 
this point of view because it has changed its business model? Has 
it?

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Bridges" <kbridges@uvm.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

> But people miss the point...Regardless of how OA changes the 
> economics of publishing (or what form it comes in) -- it is a 
> dead letter until such time that universities accept OA , on 
> the same broad basis that they accept "conventional" 
> publishing, as counting towards promotion and tenure.
>
> Unless that is in place, academics, especially younger 
> academics, have no incentive to publish in OA journals because 
> it won't count towards their tenure!!!
>
> Karl Bridges
> University of Vermont
>
>
> Quoting "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>:
>
>> Sandy,
>>
>> In your list of possible sources for OA fees, you left out
>> corporate sponsorship, as in "This article brought to you by the
>> R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company."  The trouble with free is that it
>> potentially turns all communications into a third-party marketing
>> mechanism.
>>
>> Joe Esposito