Guest Editorial—“Green Open Access is ‘Just’ Publishing”

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2020-08

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Condon, David M

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University of Oregon

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A shared experience among many graduate students is the dawning realization that the vaunted privilege of having one's scholarly work accepted for publication is also a fleecing. The exact terms of this fleecing depend on a number of different factors – so many, in fact, that it can get a bit confusing – but it's quite common for researchers to pay several thousand dollars to make their work available for others to read. And these are not the expenses incurred to complete their scholarly work. It's merely the cost of having one's work posted on the website of an academic publisher!

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Editor’s Note: To learn more about open access, go to the UO Libraries’ guide at https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/oa. See also Green Open Access: An Introduction at https://youtu.be/-5Huht3B6pU. This video was prepared by the University of Oregon Libraries and the Senate Sub Committee on Open Access in Association with Kindea Labs – 2020.

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open access, scholarly communication, peer review, green open access, gold open access, scholarly publishing

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