Recently open access (OA) platform increasingly expanded. Considering all aspects, OA or subscription based, which one is more effective in expanding and forwarding knowledge.
How OA can reduce APC? Should public scientific funding bodies provide grant for APC further?
Well in EU, under Horizont2020 program, everything funded by goverments need to be published in OA,
As from other concerns than legal, OA brings citation and facilitates technology and knowladge transfer faster than in normal settings (venture firms, capital).
Primary purpose of tenure possitions are to publish quality reaserch, The important point is whether the journals are good (= publish good papers) rather whether the access is open or restricted.
So there should be distinquion between only OPEN access journal and publishers, with OA supported.
Dear Stefan
thanks for the information.
Horizon 2020, is primarily for European researchers though it defines some avenues for non european researchers. Already we have good OA publishers with high quality journals. I think public funding bodies, universities and organizations should further provide grants or other facilities to authors for publishing in such journals. We need efforts in other continents then Europe.
Also, journals should reduce APCs more to enable wider range of authors affording the APCs.
As far as I know, for Universities that are not affiliated to EU or they are aborad, they support open access, bcs it brings more citation and visability, This is done to increase H index and reputation of University, I m not sure if you have same in Iran? if they cover publication cost, it is largly up to the Goverment, ministry and university policies and strategies to increase repuation
In Iran the APCs are paid by universitie but after publication and coverage of the paper in the indexing ng bodies and they covers a very low percent of APC. If journals are indexed in WOS Q1, the universities pay the whole but again it usually takes long time to pay and lots of red tape decisions.
How do they explain reason for why they cover expences? WHy they support Open Access?
The reason as you mentioned is receiving more citations and H index. But, the financial support is for all OA and subscription based journals. Universities pay a portion of the APCs and also an amount as award for each paper. But the amount is very low eanging 100 to 300 USD at most. Just JCR and pubmed received such award.
But I think the better alproach is universities or ministry buy the membership of good OA publishers like ACS or MDPI or Frontiers.
We need much more comprehensive approach in supporting publishing in OA.
Hmmmm. This is good idea, but maybe it is conflict of interest. I know MIT did something similar with Nano horizont from Royal Chemical Society. Most cheapest and Q1 open access publisher in Medicinal technology is F1000
Unfortunatel, they just accept JCR Q1 and just apply for academic members.
I apprecitae if you send the resource of MIT you mentioned.
I think if European researchers make collaboration and use the skills and potentials of the researchers of other non-European countries particularly Asia, would be good.
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