From: Anita Walz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:48:50 -0500

Dear Alex,

Would you kindly confirm if this special issue on "Open Access" will
indeed be Open Access?

Thank you,
Anita

Anita R. Walz
Open Education, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian
Library Liaison to Economics, Mathematics, and Legal Studies
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 6:06 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Alex Holzman <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:35:29 -0500
>
> On behalf of my coeditors, we hope those of you with something to say
> will consider saying it in this special issue!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex Holzman
> --------------------------
>
> Journal of Scholarly Publishing
> Special Issue: Open Access
> Alex Holzman, co-editor
> Robert Brown, co-editor
> Marguerite Avery, guest co-editor
>
> Deadline: March 15, 2017
>
> Send all submissions to: [log in to unmask]
>
> Open access has evolved into a social movement and gained traction in
> the scholarly community as an important cause. Yet its impact has so
> far been limited due to its fragmented messaging, inconsistent
> policies, and sometimes fractious discussions. Although open access
> stands to affect scholarly publishing as a whole, its proper
> implementation and cost-benefit effect on scholarship remain unsettled
> issues. Before we can agree on the viability of open access, we need
> more input from all parties with a stake in its outcome.
>
> For a special issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (volume 48,
> number 4, October 2017), the co-editors invite submissions from those
> engaged with open access who can shed light on this economic and moral
> concept now playing out across the scholarly communication ecosystem.
> We welcome submissions from anyone with insight into how open access
> publishing works, or could work: that includes publishers, librarians,
> scholars, editors, lawyers, technologists, university administrators,
> and government employees.
>
> Suggested submissions include the following:
>
> •   case studies of open access projects, initiatives, and ventures
>
> •   analyses of open access policies and practices across disciplines
> and publication types, publishers, and users
>
> •   discussions of the push for open access from public policy
> mandates (e.g., NIH, NEH, NSF), private foundations, libraries, and
> authors
>
> •   critiques of access to scholarly content and higher education,
> e.g., the global geography of unequal access to knowledge
>
> •   considerations of how open access affects methods of assessing
> research impact (using traditional metrics and altmetrics) or
> evaluating candidates for tenure and promotion
>
> •   legal and historical inquires into intellectual property,
> copyright, and the commons as pertaining to open access and Creative
> Commons licensing
>
> •   evaluations of the impact of open access options on the
> distribution and marketing of books and journals
>
> •   assessments of sustainable business models
>
> •   proposals for changes to the ways scholars, librarians, and
> publishers work together, both within and across these professional
> categories
>
> •   reviews of books or other publications about open access
>
> Submissions may be from 1500 to 6000 words, excluding references,
> tables, and figures. The co-editors and one outside referee will
> review all submissions, and those reviewed will be sent back to the
> authors with queries for revision. Publication will be contingent on
> authors satisfactorily resolving all queries. Other requirements for
> manuscript preparation are available at
> http://www.utpjournals.press/journals/jsp/journal/authors.
>
> The Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been published since 1969 by
> the University of Toronto Press.   It is indexed by Project MUSE,
> Academic Search Complete, and Computers & Applied Sciences Complete.