The high price of these hybrid gold OA options is only a problem if researcher obsession with journal impact factor (JIF) is immutable.
I believe this behaviour can be changed (and is already changing, moving the prestige to gold OA) and authors can be taught to submit to appropriate low-cost gold OA journals rather than expensive high JIF hybrid outlets. The final product is largely similar after all... On Oct 12, 2012 4:25 PM, "Stevan Harnad" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-10-12, at 10:32 AM, Sally Morris wrote: > > high IF journals tend to reject a higher % > of articles than low or no IF journals. Accepted articles have to bear a > share of the costs of processing these articles up to the point of > rejection. > > > This is exactly why post-Green Gold will be just a > no-fault<http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21348/> > peer-review > service: *Accepted papers will no longer be paying for rejected ones.* > > Gold OA costs will be *per round of refereeing, regardless of outcome*. > If/when a paper meets a journal's acceptance standards with no further > need for revision, "publication" will be cerified by the journal's > imprimatur. > > All the access-provision and archiving will be done by the distributed > global network of Green OA institutional repositories. > > And journals will only be motivated to create and maintain a track-record > for high quality, to attract submissions seeking certification of having > met > those standards. But papers that meet the standards will no longer be > subsidizing the costs of refereeing papers that do not. > > And of course there will continue to be a hierarchy of journals, and > their corresponding peer-review quality standards, since human > endeavor is inevitably Gaussian, and selectivity percentiles are > selectivity percentiles. > > Authors will not pick journals by their price (which will be the same, per > round) > but by their quality standards. And even if their paper fails to meet the > standards > of a journal whose quality is higher than a given author can reach, > authors will > still benefit from the recommendations made by the referees of that > higher-standard > journal in revising their paper for a journal more appropriate for its > quality level. > > (And to minimize their costs, authors will make more effort to choose > journals commensurate with the quality of their articles, instead of all > trying for the top journals, and thereby increasing the cost of the > accepted > articles, as now, in the acceptance-based subscription and Gold OA > system.) > > But for all these good things, we first have to mandate Green globally… > > Stevan Harnad > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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