As a casual reader of this list would it be foolish of me to suggest that you seek funding from a variety of sources and publish the results in a variety of journals? Your methodological skills and depth of personal insight would carry over between academic reality and the open ideal, no?
Best regards -- Ward On Jun 28, 2016, at 10:38 PM, Piotr Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For > example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, > sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are > green open access? Zero. > WMF grants exist to make research easier, but they also should take into > consideration the realities of academic publishing. Personally, I hate to > think that my research goes to support parasites like Elsevier and their ilk, > but if I publish in the green open access journals I respect, well, my > evaluation from the university bureaucrats will not be very respectful to me. > So publishing my wiki research in such venues is not an option. > > Of course, you may say that in such case I should not ask for WMF grants at > all, but I do not think that we should penalize researchers who are in fields > like sociology - it is not their fault that the OA movement hasn't made much > inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's going OT). > Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its dissemination > in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too. > -- > > Piotr Konieczny, PhD > > http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny > http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus > On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: >> There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any >> description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian >> to find a journal that meets your needs. >> >> cheers >> stuart >> >> -- >> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >> >> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work that >> they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy, that I >> recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants to >> publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I >> recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose scope >> was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote to WMF >> to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper was under >> the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA >> publishing. >> >> Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience? >> >> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy >> [2] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Activities >> >> Make a great day, >> Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
