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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am considering submitting an article to an open access journal (SAGE Open). I would like to get a sense of how open access journals are regarded by my peers. We are being pushed by funders and our universities to make our work open and accessible. At the same time, it seems that the longer-established print journals still hold the standard and prestige. Is there an assumption that work published in open access journals is somehow less significant or of lower quality? Is this related to the fact that the cost of publishing is paid by the author rather than by libraries, institutions or individual readers?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And specifically, does anyone have experience with SAGE Open as an author or reviewer or reader?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Karen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Karen Pennesi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Linguistics, Social Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>University of Western Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="mailto:pennesi@uwo.ca">pennesi@uwo.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="http://anthropology.uwo.ca/faculty/pennesi/name_project.html">UWO Names Study</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/UWO-Names-Study/285003628218202?ref=hl">UWO Names Study on Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>