{"id":3926,"date":"2012-04-29T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2012-04-29T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:42:38","slug":"the-rise-of-open-access-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-rise-of-open-access-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of Open-Access Journals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042912_1339_TheRiseOfOp1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harvard University&#8217;s Faculty Advisory Committee has sent out a memo requesting that professors encourage the growth of free, open-access journals. Highlights from the memo include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harvard&#8217;s annual cost for journals is $3.75 million. The most expensive journals can cost as much as $40,000 per year and the price is rising unsustainably. In some cases prices have risen by as much as 145% in a year.<\/li>\n<li>Harvard faculty are encouraged to &#8220;move prestige to open access&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>They are also asked to &#8220;consider resigning&#8221; if they are on the editorial board of pay for access journals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the full memo and find out what the profit margins of the journals are, click <a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k77982&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k77982&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448\">The Harvard Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2012\/04\/harvard-library-advises-its-faculty-to-go-open-access.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University&#8217;s Faculty Advisory Committee has sent out a memo requesting that professors encourage the growth of free, open-access journals. Highlights from the memo include: Harvard&#8217;s annual cost for journals is $3.75 million. The most expensive journals can cost as much as $40,000 per year and the price is rising unsustainably. In some cases prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/042912_1339_TheRiseOfOp1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}