{"id":1106,"date":"2012-01-04T20:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T01:45:56","slug":"switching-to-open-access-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2012\/01\/04\/switching-to-open-access-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching to open access for the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"200\" align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#F7EFE5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/raybanbro66\/2993752517\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/files\/2012\/01\/2993752517_66a9b9ffa8.jpg\" alt=\"...time to switch...\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">\u201c&#8230;time to switch&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 85%\"><em>A very old light switch<\/em> (2008) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/raybanbro66\/\">RayBanBro66<\/a> via flickr. Used by permission (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC by-nc-nd<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchinlearningtechnology.net\/index.php\/rlt\">Research in Learning Technology<\/a><\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/researchinlearningtechnology2012\">switched its approach<\/a> from closed to open access as of New Year&#8217;s 2012. Congratulations to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/\">Association for Learning Technology<\/a> (ALT) and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/about-alt\/how-we-are-governed\/central-executive-committee\">Central Executive Committee<\/a> for this farsighted move.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first journal to make the switch. The Open Access Directory lists <a href=\"http:\/\/oad.simmons.edu\/oadwiki\/Journals_that_converted_from_TA_to_OA\">about 130 of them<\/a>. In my own research field, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclweb.org\/\">Association for Computational Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0(ACL)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1162\/coli.2008.34.4.621\">converted<\/a> its flagship journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/loi\/coli\">Computational Linguistics<\/a><\/em> to OA as of 2009, and has just announced a new open-access journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclweb.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=102&amp;Itemid=30\">Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics<\/a><\/em>. Each such transition is a reminder of the trajectory that journal publishing ought to head.<\/p>\n<p>The ALT has done lots of things right in this change. They&#8217;ve chosen the ideal licensing regime for papers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution<\/a>\u00a0(CC-BY) license. They&#8217;ve jettisoned one of the largest commercial subscription journal publishers, and gone with a small but dedicated professional open-access publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co-action.net\/\">Co-Action Publishing<\/a>. They&#8217;ve opened access to the journal retrospectively, so that the entire archive, back to 1993, is available from the publisher&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that other scholarly societies are inspired by the examples of the ALT and ACL, and join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arl.org\/sparc\/publications\/open-access-journals-from-society-publishers.shtml\">many hundreds of scholarly societies<\/a> that publish their journals open access. It&#8217;s time to switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;time to switch&#8230;\u201d A very old light switch (2008) by RayBanBro66 via flickr. Used by permission (CC by-nc-nd) The journal Research in Learning Technology has switched its approach from closed to open access as of New Year&#8217;s 2012. Congratulations to the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and its Central Executive Committee for this farsighted move. 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