{"id":2140,"date":"2013-10-24T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/transitions\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:58:54","slug":"six-common-myths-about-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/10\/24\/six-common-myths-about-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Common Myths About Open Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"the Guardian | Higher Education Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\" >The Guardian&#8217;s Higher Education Network<\/a> recently published a guest blog post by <a title=\"Peter Suber | Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/~psuber\/wiki\/Peter_Suber\" >Peter Suber<\/a>, Director of the <a title=\"Harvard | Office for Scholarly Communication\" href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/\" >Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication<\/a> and author of <em><a title=\"Open Access | MIT Press\" href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/open-access\" >Open Access<\/a><\/em> (MIT Press, 2012).\u00a0 The post debunks six common myths about open access for this year&#8217;s <a title=\"Open Access Week\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openaccessweek.org\/\" >Open Access Week. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the myths about open access, briefly noted:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The only way to provide open access to peer-reviewed journal articles is to publish in open access journals.<\/li>\n<li>All or more open access journals charge publication fees.<\/li>\n<li>Most author-side fees are paid by the authors themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Publishing in a conventional journal closes the door on making the same work open access.<\/li>\n<li>Open access journals are intrinsically low in quality.<\/li>\n<li>Open access mandates infringe academic freedom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As Suber notes in the post, the topic of open access is becoming a mainstream issue in higher education and public policy. Given the complexity of the issue, it is important to know that facts when considering if open access is the right model for sharing scholarship. <a title=\"Open access: six myths to put to rest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2013\/oct\/21\/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard\" >Read the post here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&rsquo;s Higher Education Network recently published a guest blog post by Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and author of Open Access (MIT Press, 2012).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}