Kudos! Nicely done.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Michael Wolfe <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Alex! Very impressed with the statement. > > That said, I'm also going to take up Nate's point. It's important that > there are a plurality of OA publication business models. While publication > fees can be quite burdensome, I'm not inclined to think that they are of > themselves bad. We likely wouldn't have a PLOS if publication fees were an > OA taboo. > > I'm sympathetic to the fact that fees tend to restrict the publications > that charge them to authors well ensconced in the ivory tower, but > ultimately the bulk of academic writing — descriptively, though not > normatively — comes from persons with means to pay the fees, whether > through the progressive policies of their home > institutions<http://www.oacompact.org/signatories/>, > grants, or personal wealth. That first means, institutional policy, is one > where this organization might be well positioned to make headway. > > Yes, the democratization of information has two sides: authors and > readers. I'm OK with reader-focused democratization as an independent goal, > even if I'd also like to see authors have greater access to publication as > well. Does this make sense? > > Anyhow, kudos on the amazing essay. > > Mike > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Nate Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Alex, >> >> Great essay. It's powerful, and it looks great on your site. >> >> I have one question: >> >> You said, "I will also only contribute to open-access publications that >> do not charge authors for publishing." >> >> What sort of funding model do you believe works for the type of moral OA >> journal you want to write for? >> >> While extracting the cost of publishing from authors, their institutions, >> or the grants that provided the funding for their research does put up >> another barrier to entry into the journal itself, it does not require >> closed access to the public once the work is published. What do you think? >> >> Nate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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