[Air-L] Open access journals

Fri Mar 1 12:14:25 PST 2019

Hi all,

I’d just like to register my interest in this discussion. We started a journal within our research centre a year or so back. The content is not necessarily AOIR-related, but the practicalities of OA, ‘independent’ academic publishing are very much of interest to us. The journal is called Riffs - Experimental Writing on Popular Music (www.riffsjournal.org<http://www.riffsjournal.org>). We produce a small number of printed copies and currently use WP / PDFs for free digital versions. I’m currently looking at Manifold to improve the digital side of things, which looks ideal for our purposes.

Anyway. If this discussion develops into something - a working group, perhaps - I’d love to be involved.

Kind regards
Craig
Dr Craig Hamilton
Research Fellow
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
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On 1 Mar 2019, at 20:05, Jacob Groshek <jgroshek at gmail.com<mailto:jgroshek at gmail.com>> wrote:

Dear Colleagues:

Shameless self promotion, but the Communication Technology Division of the
Association for Education and Journalism in Mass Communication (AEJMC) has
recently launched the Journal of Communication Technology (see
http://www.joctec.org/), which is open access and self published at Boston
University.  We've published our first issue last year and are currently
accepting submissions on an ongoing basis, as well as searching for
associate editors (see call on the journal homepage).

If anyone has questions, I'm currently the Editor so please feel free to
reach out.

Thanks,

Jacob
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Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies
Senior Fellow, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy
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Associate Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies
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Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Faculty Fellow
Boston University
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 12:30 PM Zach McDowell <zmcdowell at gmail.com<mailto:zmcdowell at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

I'll echo that DOAJ is the gold standard. http://doaj.org

The thing about DOAJ is that they are incredibly strict. To get listed
there you must pass a variety of tests that guarantee that you are
upholding the ethics of Open Access Journals. They had a big purge a
few years ago and its become quite difficult to get listed there unless you
have all your ducks in a row. Its just a directory though, and honestly its
updated by the journals themselves so sometimes its a little out of date
(stares in mirror at self, remembering to update DOAJ). So if you are
looking for an argument for why an open access journal "counts" - I'd start
with DOAJ.

Another good list is Open Humanities Press
https://openhumanitiespress.org/

Their board is exceptional and they have both journals and open access book
projects. Really great project.

That being said, the journal I co-founded and co-edit, *communication +1
*is
part of both DOAJ and OHP. We often publish volumes that would be of
interest to AoIR folx. http://communicationplusone.org

best,

Zach

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Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
www.zachmcdowell.com

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:20 AM Nathaniel Poor <natpoor at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a few listed here:   https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
(In the lower right.)
That page is a bit dusty, though.

I also have a listing of conferences which iI’ve always rather liked
since
you can sort it by submission date (although these things do change year
to
year).
https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/conferences

-Nat

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Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
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http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
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On Mar 1, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Mittell, Jason S. <jmittell at middlebury.edu

wrote:

Jill et. al.,

The best overall resource is the Directory of Open Access Journals:
https://doaj.org/

I'll plug the journal I co-run, [in]Transition<
http://mediacommons.org/intransition>, which publishes video essays
rather than written articles.

I'd also take a moment to ask everyone to consider their own publishing
and reviewing practices, and how they contribute to access & openness,
rather than profiteering by private companies off of the free labor of
academics. If you are in the position to do so, consider pledging not to
publish in, edit, and/or review for commercially-owned journals.

-Jason

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Middlebury College
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Middlebury, Vermont 05753
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