Online Learning Update

February 17, 2011

Scholars Favor Open-Access Journals, but Some Say Quality and Fees Are Concerns

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By Josh Fischman, Chronicle of Higher Ed

A new survey of nearly 40,000 scholars across the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences shows that almost 90 percent of them believe open-access journals are good for the research community and the individual researcher. But charges for publishing and the perception that open-access journals are of lower quality than traditional publications deter scholars from the open-access route, according to the Study of Open Access Publishing report, by an international team of researchers.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/scholars-favor-open-access-journals-but-quality-and-fees-are-concerns-for-some/29555?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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