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Fair Open Access #7

Closed lgatto closed 5 years ago

lgatto commented 5 years ago

It might be worth mentioning Fair Open Access explicitly see this tweet for suggestion

https://twitter.com/Dmitri145/status/1061596879656488962

lgatto commented 5 years ago

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rossmounce commented 5 years ago

It is not that 'fair OA' journals don't exist in the life sciences, they do, I guess I have published in one of them, before the term "fair open access" was even defined (2017?) : Ideas in Ecology and Evolution (APC $200, I think that would qualify as "fair")

Poisot, T., Mounce, R., and Gravel, D. 2013. Moving toward a sustainable ecological science: don't let data go to waste! Ideas in Ecology and Evolution http://dx.doi.org/10.4033/iee.2013.6b.14.f

I can't help but note that the Fair OA Alliance is composed of: LingOA, MathOA, OLH, and PsychOA. Admittedly Psych is part of life sciences (?), but aside from those areas and subdisciplines, fair OA isn't well understood or well known, in my opinion. So I would be happy to simply ignore this suggestion as in my opinion life sciences (as whole) hasn't recognized fair OA yet and this article isn't the best place to start introducing the concept. We are looking back with this article over the last few years, not looking forwards, right?

If we mentioned everything that we want to happen in the future... that would be a very different article!

To be clear, I think the principles of fair open access are great. We could include a line on it if we want but hmmmm

sje30 commented 5 years ago

I'll work something into the comment to reviewer 2.

sje30 commented 5 years ago

ok, done. I didn't use the term "fair" as I don't think its widely adopted, but have described diamond OA i more detail.