Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

["James J. O'Donnell" <provost@georgetown.edu>]

I read tenure dossiers for a living and have not seen discussion 
of the business model of a journal as part of internal or 
external discussion of candidates, as positive or negative. 
Impact factor of a journal or perceived "top tier" status is 
regularly discussed.

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown U.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Anthony Watkinson
<anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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