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It is absolute bull that only the rich get a PhD in philosophy. Although I think philosophers tend to skew toward the middle class or upper middle class (I was certainly the poorest, by far, in my...
View ArticleBy: Bijan Parsia
even I don’t have to pay anything to read individual articles (who does that?). It depends on the subscription packet your library has. I’ve very occasionally had to purchase an article (or a book)....
View ArticleBy: Alison Stone
Writing from within the UK, my understanding is that the general practice will be that universities pay the costs, not individuals. I suppose if a university couldn’t cover it, a rich individual might...
View ArticleBy: Kathryn J. Norlock
Thanks, Alison Stone, for providing clarifying thoughts. I actually was having quite a bit of trouble following these developments, and I’m keen to follow them given how much interest I have in Open...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
The block grants are not the same as the QR funding. This is additional money from the research councils for the purposes of funding open access publication. But as I said above, it’s a drop in the...
View ArticleBy: Alison Stone
Kathryn, thanks for the links. But looking at the grant to my institution – Lancaster – (very low down the list, presumably because we don’t have so much work in STEM subjects) – the grant will cover...
View ArticleBy: Cora Diamond
It isn’t clear that ‘pay to publish’ lowers library costs, if libraries are still paying to make available back issues of journals. The only way they could save that money is by not paying the...
View ArticleBy: Cate Hundleby
One way to resist this — everywhere — is for as many of us as possible to start shifting our publications toward truly open access (i.e. free) on-line journals. If they gain in power and prestige the...
View ArticleBy: URGENT: Oppose ‘pay to publish’ model | Feminist Philosophers
[...] we’ve noted before, the UK government is adopting a very shortsighted policy of insisting that any research which was [...]
View ArticleBy: curtrice
I think that ministries, research councils, universities and their libraries are all going to realize that if we go for the Gold model, that the “entry” fees have to be covered. 10 years ago, the...
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