petersuberDec 31, 2023

From @glynmoody: "The fact that [#DiamondOA journals] can publish rebuttals quickly and without demanding a payment to do so is yet another reason they are the best form of #OpenAccess available."
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/27/another-reason-why-diamond-access-makes-sense-no-economic-barriers-to-publishing-rebuttals/

Background: An APC-based OA journal (Ecosphere from #Wiley) refused to publish a rebuttal article unless the rebuttal authors paid an #APC. Kudos to Web Ecology for publishing the rebuttal without an APC. Also see the Web Ecology editorial on this case.
https://we.copernicus.org/articles/23/131/2023/

Another Reason Why Diamond Access Makes Sense: No Economic Barriers To Publishing Rebuttals

Walled Culture has written numerous posts about the promise and problems of open access. An important editorial in the journal Web Ecology raises an issue for open access t…

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Update. From the Web Ecology editorial mentioned above:
https://we.copernicus.org/articles/23/131/2023/

"Clearly, charging authors for brief, well-founded criticism of published articles creates a highly problematic disincentive to fruitful scientific discussion. This uncontroversial stance should enjoy universal support, but it currently does not…It is time to consider the damaging effects of charging authors for critical comments in [#APC-based] #OpenAccess journals."

Editorial: Pay to criticise? Rebuttal articles in open-access journals should be published for free

Show threadChuck Darwin

@petersuber
#APC = #ArticleProcesingCharges?

#GreenOA #GoldOA #DiamondOA #HybridOA

Can you recommend a good overview of #OpenAccess?
And is there any hope of replacing the opaque terminology?

Jan 20, 2024 at 11:08pmWeb
Show threadKlaus Baldermann 📜Jan 21, 2024

@cdarwin @petersuber
Short overview: https://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=115588&p=754380

The "definitions" section in the Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Definitions seems to be comprehensive, too.

GSU Library Research Guides: Open Access: Types of OA

An overview of open access (OA) basics and resources. Overview of types of open access

Show threadChuck DarwinJan 21, 2024
@soonix @petersuber Thank you for the clarification🙏🏻
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@cdarwin
* Yes, APC = article processing charge

* Here are some of my own overviews of #OpenAccess (from short to long, depending on your time and interest).
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/boy6rnhd

* Yes, the color terms are opaque. My take:
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1379836536674484229

We should avoid them when speaking to general audiences. Green OA = repository-based OA. Gold OA = journal-based OA. Diamond OA = no-APC gold OA. But at the same time, for brevity, I feel constrained to use them in toots and tweets.

Readings for Open Access Week 2022

Peter Suber