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Many journals offer an open-access option for publishing. However, this is chosen after the article has been reviewed and accepted. So, currently there isn't al

by mbreese 11y ago

Many journals offer an open-access option for publishing. However, this is chosen after the article has been reviewed and accepted. So, currently there isn't always a way (for a reviewer) to know if an article will be published open access or not. Edit: added "for a reviewer"

chris_wot 11y ago
So... less than useful when choosing whether to publish in a particular journal then, if this is important to you.
- phalangion 11y ago
  You can view the journal's open access options before you submit your paper for review. I just did this for a paper at an Elsevier journal. If the paper is accepted, the authors can choose to publish it open access, which requires paying the "open access charge" to the publisher. Once paid, though, the journal is available for free from their website.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    So... you basically do a whole bunch of work, then a publisher takes your work, makes a lot of money out of it, and you can pay to have it openly published. I see.
simula67 11y ago
Not for Springer though, right ? From Springer FAQ ( http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/faq-about-authors-rights/2114 http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/faq-ab... ) "I don’t want to transfer my copyright. What should I do? You can choose to publish your article open access in Springer’s Open Choice program or one of our SpringerOpen journals. Publishing an article with open access leaves the copyright with the author. The article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited"
- mbreese 11y ago
  But the reviewers have no knowledge of this choice (nor should they really). The parent was suggesting that Universities bar their faculty from reviewing papers unless it was an open-access publisher. I haven't published in a Springer journal, but others have the authors make the open-access determination only after the paper was accepted. In which case, the reviewers would have no idea about if they were reviewing an open-access paper or not.

by mbreese 11y ago

chris_wot 11y ago

So... less than useful when choosing whether to publish in a particular journal then, if this is important to you.

phalangion 11y ago
You can view the journal's open access options before you submit your paper for review. I just did this for a paper at an Elsevier journal. If the paper is accepted, the authors can choose to publish it open access, which requires paying the "open access charge" to the publisher. Once paid, though, the journal is available for free from their website.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  So... you basically do a whole bunch of work, then a publisher takes your work, makes a lot of money out of it, and you can pay to have it openly published. I see.

simula67 11y ago

Not for Springer though, right ? From Springer FAQ ( http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/faq-about-authors-rights/2114 http://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/authors-rights/faq-ab... ) "I don’t want to transfer my copyright. What should I do? You can choose to publish your article open access in Springer’s Open Choice program or one of our SpringerOpen journals. Publishing an article with open access leaves the copyright with the author. The article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited"

mbreese 11y ago
But the reviewers have no knowledge of this choice (nor should they really). The parent was suggesting that Universities bar their faculty from reviewing papers unless it was an open-access publisher. I haven't published in a Springer journal, but others have the authors make the open-access determination only after the paper was accepted. In which case, the reviewers would have no idea about if they were reviewing an open-access paper or not.