Alex, This is great - I've been thinking about this for some time, and have talked with many academics about how to make this more feasible (regarding things like tenure promotion and such, which is very scary for burgeoning academics). We are much further along in the process, but many are quite afraid of OA journals and OA publishing. For example, we need more people to volunteer for OA journals (since we - I say we because I am an editor of communication +1 - don't have money to hire editors) so that our journals can compete with the pay ones.
We also need more institutional support - my current PhD program offers free CC licensing for theses, but at ASU they wanted $700 to copyright my MA thesis with a CC-BY license. I didn't have $700, so my thesis was "locked" because the option wasn't there (this was about six years ago, they might have changed things since then, but I specifically remember being very irked by this). Kudos to you for putting this great site together. This is a touchy subject for academics, and hopefully will get more conversation started. best Zach On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Today I've made an important personal announcement: I've decided to only > publish in open-access academic publications. Even after years of being in > this group, it was still difficult to come to this decision, but I'm glad > I've finally reached it. You can, and I encourage you to, read more about > my thoughts here -- http://alexleavitt.com/oa/ -- and if you feel > inclined, please share it with colleagues and your respective networks. > > Thanks, > Alex > > --- > > Alexander Leavitt > PhD Student > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > http://alexleavitt.com > Twitter: @alexleavitt > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- best, Zach ------------------------ Zachary J McDowell Doctoral Candidate Communication Studies Department University of Massachusetts Amherst Wikipedia Teaching Fellow<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Writing_As_Communication_Spring_2012>
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