15.1 Open access journal literature is an open educational resource  (Page 6/16)

What are some of the arguments against OA journals? That is, have you (anybody) heard rationale from particular groups inside the academy or outside that challenge publication in OA journals? I would imagine that concerns about OA journals are different from OER Courseware.

3. redsevenone - september 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

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4. gavin baker - september 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

Graham and Ken, thanks for the kind words.

Ken, at the institution level, most of the momentum has been for OA archiving: the author publishes in whatever journal, open or not, and simply posts a copy of his paper online. A great deal of universities have opened an institutional repository in which faculty can deposit their papers. From the institution’s perspective, it can create a place to showcase its scholarly output and help to disseminate it.