Why do professors pick paywalls?
A Report from the OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) "Equity in Open Access workshop#2" by Malavika Legge.
My premise and presumption is that professors would not pick paywalls if all other things were equal. They sometimes pick paywalls now because they have no other choice (affordability) OR they are led to believe that paywalls are superior – something that the publishing community and those who are in charge of career assessment are currently reinforcing in ways described above.
SANLic has created a guide which provides an overview of all the current read and publish (R&P) agreements.
These agreements enable libraries to provide read access to paywalled content while simultaneously repurposing reading subscription expenditure to finance open access publishing in the same journal collections. Students, academic staff and researchers can access high quality paywalled scholarly content while authors can publish full and immediate open access in hybrid journals without paying APCs in most cases or at a discounted rate in some fully open access journals. Authors from partici[pating institutions are eligible for OA publishing in the titles included in these agreements.
Please note that it is the researchers responsibility to double-check the DHET accreditation of a specific journal.
Source: SANLiC website 4/04/2024
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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists 12,740 Open Access journals from all over the world. High quality African open access journals are also encouraged to adhere to the requirements, and to apply for inclusion.
Researchers are encouraged to publish research articles with preferred publishers. In addition to publishing their research articles, they are encouraged to also upload a second copy of the published article into the institutions’ institutional repository. The purpose of an IR is to centrally archive all research output by an institution, at the same time increasing the visibility of the institution and the impact it has in addressing research challenges. The following directories provide info on known repositories from all over the world:
