Re: universities experiment with paying OA fees

[Karl Bridges <kbridges@uvm.edu>]

But people miss the point...Regardless of how OA changes the 
economics of publishing (or what form it comes in) -- it is a 
dead letter until such time that universities accept OA , on the 
same broad basis that they accept "conventional" publishing, as 
counting towards promotion and tenure.

Unless that is in place, academics, especially younger academics, 
have no incentive to publish in OA journals because it won't 
count towards their tenure!!!

Karl Bridges
University of Vermont


Quoting "Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>:

> Sandy,
>
> In your list of possible sources for OA fees, you left out
> corporate sponsorship, as in "This article brought to you by the
> R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company."  The trouble with free is that it
> potentially turns all communications into a third-party marketing
> mechanism.
>
> Joe Esposito