[Open-education] [cc-openedu] CFP: Special Issue on Open Educational Practices

Wed Feb 6 12:31:44 UTC 2019

Dear Leo,

Thanks for your reply. I rercognize your struggle of on the one hand being
eager on publishing OA and on the other hand the wonderful opportunity you
have in editing this special issue. It made me realize that I have a bit of
a luxury position on this. Having a few years left before my retirement, I
have no obligations to publish to advance my career, and therefore can be
selective in which journal to publish. This makes me feel kind of
commenting from the side line on this issue.

I have looked on the OA policy of this journal and maybe something can be
done on this. Their APC for this journal is in the range of $2000-$3000 per
article, depending on the region the lead author lives. I expect you as
editors are not paid for this job, so maybe this APC can be lowered to a
more realistic value (whatever that may be) for this special issue.
Publishing research articles in a green OA version has an embargo period of
18 months (!) which seems also rather long for this special issue.

Regards,

Robert Schuwer

Op di 5 feb. 2019 om 19:57 schreef Leo Havemann <leohavemann at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks John for circulating the call for proposals, and Robert and Maha
> for your comments.
>
> On behalf of my special issue co-editors Suzan Kozeoglu and Aras Bozkurt,
> as well as myself, I would just like to say we are delighted to have the
> opportunity to put together a special issue focused on OEP in the context
> of Open and Distance Learning, and consideration of critical perspectives.
> We believe that Distance Education is a great journal with a long history
> of publishing important work in this field and we are grateful to have this
> chance to define the topic for a special issue.
>
> We are also aware that some people will feel they would rather publish in
> OA venues and we respect that. Of course we agree it would be excellent if
> scholarly publishing in general had resolved the economics of publishing in
> favour of fully funded, Gold OA without article processing charges (APCs),
> and if this journal was OA, but at the current time it is a hybrid journal
> (in other words it offers the option to make articles Gold OA via APCs,
> which clearly is not affordable to all scholars), and supports Green OA for
> all other articles (in other words, authors can make a pre-print available
> via an institutional repository or personal website with no embargo period,
> which can then be discovered via the use of google scholar or
> the unpaywall extension, for example). This is less ideal than instant Gold
> OA and for this reason we have asked the journal about the possibility of
> making this an OA issue, and we are hoping it will be possible. Whether
> this request is successful or not, this time, we feel that it is worthwhile
> making it and putting the issue on the radar of the editorial board. Over
> time we hope to see many journals flip to OA but the societies which run
> them need to develop alternative revenue models to make this happen. In the
> meantime we believe it is important to adopt Green OA practices to ensure
> papers are available to the widest possible audience.
>
> Best wishes
> Leo Havemann
>
> Digital Education Advisor, UCL / Postgraduate Researcher, Open University
>
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 12:49, 'Maha Bali' via Open Education Platform <
> cc-openedu at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, at the moment, I was told it would not be OA but I think
>> they are trying.
>>
>> It's really annoying that they even have to ask. It should be default: if
>> you're having a special issue about open, the papers should be open.
>>
>> Maha
>>
>> Maha Bali, PhD
>> Associate Professor of Practice, Center for Learning and Teaching,
>> American University in Cairo
>> http://blog.mahabali.me
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 2:15 PM Robert Schuwer <robert.schuwer at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The $1000 question is of course: will this issue be published Open
>>> Access?
>>>
>>> Op ma 4 feb. 2019 12:34 schreef John Okewole <dbeloved at gmail.com:
>>>
>>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> Bea de los Arcos tweeted about this information piece which I found
>>>> noteworthy to share in the community.
>>>>
>>>> Distance Education <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdie20/current>
>>>> the official journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of
>>>> Australia Inc. (ODLAA) calls for proposal in this Special Issue on *Open
>>>> Education Practices*.
>>>>
>>>> Read more about the call and the timelines here
>>>> <https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/distance-education-si-open-educational-practices/?utm_source=CPB_think&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOA08090#?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOA08090>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> With gratitude,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> OKEWOLE, John Taiwo
>>>> Yaba College of Technology
>>>> Lagos, Nigeria
>>>>
>>>> Mobile: +2348024600470
>>>>
>>>> #Commonwealth Scholar
>>>>
>>>>
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