[Irtalk] My change of heart about open access journals… we can do better | Notes from the research frontier

[Hilton Gibson]

*Except, what I discovered is that such journals also have an “inclusive”
policy. This means that it is actually very difficult to have your paper
rejected by an open access journal.* It is only under extreme circumstances
that need to be explicitly argued for, that a paper can be rejected with no
further re-submission possible.

Personally, I find this policy problematic. Being inclusive is, on the face
of things, a good thing; even if you profoundly disagree with a piece of
research, if it has been carried out ethically using sound methods etc –
then it should be given the opportunity to be published. *But to remove the
possibility of rejecting work without some considerable investment in
justifying the rejection plays into the profit-making nature of the
journals.*

http://researchfrontier.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/my-change-of-heart-about-open-access-journals-we-can-do-better/
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