Why not in University promotions Open access (you pay for publication and low quality mostly) and not open access (dont need to pay and high quality mostly).
Still they are considered same mostly. It brings the people with more money or willing to pay more money for publishing even trash in paid journals at higher seats and they becomes policy makers then and are destroying research culture specially in the under developed counties. Paid journals shouldnt have half or no value for promotions?
Universities have a long struggle to distinguish Important from unimportant publications by their scholars. Traditionally, open access journals have been of lower impact in importance, and for that reason have been undervalued by universities. Closed access journals, the traditional powerhouse journals, were recorded much higher importance in a valuation of scholars' performance.
Now, however, The balance is tipping quite significantly. Indeed, in many fields, open access journals are at least as prestigious as close to access journals. This trend will continue into the future, as open access beats out closes access as the main medium of scholarly communication. Universities have been relatively slow in responding to these trends, which produces the imbalances that you noted.
Subscription-based access requires readers to pay for the content that they read. This has been the model followed traditionally in the academic publishing industry. Since individuals or institutions have to pay subscription charges, only scholars and academics who are subscribed to the journal will read your paper.
In the open access model, readers are not charged: they have free online access to the content. By allowing free access to the scientific community and to the public, the open access model definitely ensures a wider readership.
For subscription-based publications, you have to transfer copyright of your paper to the journal. This means that anybody who wishes to use any part of your paper will have to seek permission from the journal. On the other hand, open access journals use CC licenses, which give users the right to share, use, and build upon your work.
Academic institutions and university frequently use the number of publication to an individual's credit as the measure of competency. Administrators are increasingly using this as the criteria during recruitments. Scholars, who publish infrequently or who focus on activities that do not result in publications like instructing undergraduates, may find themselves out of contentions for many teaching positions.
The pressure to publish-or-perish also detracts from the time and effort professors can devote to teaching undergraduate and post-graduates. The rewards for exceptional teaching rarely match the rewards for exceptional research, which encourages faculty to favor the latter whenever they conflict. Many universities do not focus on teaching ability when they hire new faculty and simply look at the publications list.
http://www.editage.com/insights/what-are-the-differences-between-open-access-and-standard-subscription-based-publication
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999612/
Many of the Universities are use of online sources in various subjects. Open access journals are not covered in many depth of subjects and allied areas.
From source: thewire.in
According to a paper in Current Science last year that Arunachalam coauthored, Indian scientists between 2011 and 2014 published 14,293 papers in OA journals that charged a fixed APC. The average APC per paper was $1,173 (Rs 75,900). A study published in 2014 had estimated that the global average per paper was $964 (Rs 62,400). Without APCs in the picture, Arunachalam and his coauthors estimated that Indian institutions could save about Rs 16 crore every year.
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