Today I am discovering the wonderful world of Open Access APCs. I, a poor queer independent researcher, would like to publish my research open access because I believe it should be free to any who need it. The publication we were pointed to as being ideal for publishing our work....wants to charge over $3000USD. I thought I was misreading that at first, but no apparently not. @academicchatter#academicchatter#OER#AcademicPublishing
Publishing openly is a huge challenge at a time of increasingly fraught relations between academics and commercial publishers. Open access publishing will be discussed at the Uni of Geneva: "Affordable Open Access: exploring funding and free publishing options", part of the International Open Access Week.
How common is it in the humanities that an academic journal does not accept "unsolicited manuscripts" (aka article submissions: Don't contact us, we contact you.) and then has a house style that is so prohibitive that it demands to use a specific typeface that's not even included by default in MS Office? To cap it all, it's in a discipline that when it was set up in the 70s, it was intended to break down sociocultural barriers. Culture may be ordinary, but so is gatekeeping it seems.