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RE: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
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- Subject: RE: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter
- From: "Ken Masters" <kmasters@ithealthed.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 00:15:49 EDT
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Hi All Pippa makes the all-important point that decisions to accept or reject papers are made by editors, not publishers. It is this point that is conveniently forgotten when critics of author-pay OA journals accuse those journals of accepting anything, just to increase their revenue. Even in the author-pay model, the decision to accept is made by the editor; the money goes to the journal, not to the editor. Regards Ken ---- Dr. Ken Masters Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics Medical Education Unit College of Medicine & Health Sciences Sultan Qaboos University Sultanate of Oman E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education ____/\/********\/\____ > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: May issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter > From: Pippa Smart <pippa.smart@googlemail.com> > Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 3:27 am > To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu > > > One point that should be clarified - it is not publishers who > decide whether papers are accepted or refused, but editors. Most > publishers (at least those who operate ethically) do not > interfere with editorial decisions. Therefore at the moment they > are not in a position to legislate against accepting articles > from the "FRPAA agencies." > > I believe at the moment there is a "watching brief" but if > publishers start to believe that such mandates will cost them > sufficient money as to endanger their business, they may try to > ban papers from such authors - but if this happens there will be > a battle with the editors on the issue of editorial independence. > > Peter - you mention some *profitable* OA publishers who do not > charge author fees. Can you provide some names (or point me to a > resource), so I can clarify where they obtain their income from. > thanks > > Pippa > > Pippa Smart > Research Communication and Publishing Consultant > PSP Consulting > email: pippa.smart@gmail.com > Web: www.pspconsulting.org >
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