{"id":462,"date":"2012-04-11T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=462"},"modified":"2012-04-11T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:00:54","slug":"academic-journals-an-open-and-shut-case-editorial-comment-is-free-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/04\/11\/academic-journals-an-open-and-shut-case-editorial-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This link was sent to me by Tim Albert who is a freelance scientific writer trainer. It is a powerful indictment of the traditional publishing model and makes a strong case for open access journals. I have written about this before. In essence, although I approve of the moral argument, the problems with OA need to be acknowledged and addressed. One problem for retired folks like me is the huge author fee that is levied. I have not tested the extent to which a good OA journal would offer a reduction or waiver but unless this is generous and widespread many authors would have no access to these journals. But do read the Guardian article and the comments that follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/11\/academic-journals-access-wellcome-trust\">Academic journals: an open and shut case | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link was sent to me by Tim Albert who is a freelance scientific writer trainer. It is a powerful indictment of the traditional publishing model and makes a strong case for open access journals. I have written about this before. In essence, although I approve of the moral argument, the problems with OA need [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2012\/04\/11\/academic-journals-an-open-and-shut-case-editorial-comment-is-free-the-guardian\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}