<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">I would just like to point out the obvious that open access is not synonymous with non-peer-reviewed or even a lower bar for peer reviews. In fact, some scholars do peer reviews for open access publications and big publishers. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">The main issue is that an open access publication (especially web-based) does not have to deal with some of the issues that the big publishers have to deal with e.g. high costs associated with printing, distribution, space, and so can admit more works for publication than a big publisher. Therefore, a work will get turned down by a big publisher not (necessarily) because it isn't good, but because the axe has to fall somewhere to contain costs. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Joseph<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2013 10:53, William Croft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wcroft@unm.edu" target="_blank">wcroft@unm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>But the problem is, a good-quality but open-access or inexpensive publication does not have the quality of peer review, the track record of quality publication, and the marketing presence that Publisher X has, so it is not surprising that a tenure committee
takes such a publication less seriously even if the author chose that publication outlet precisely to make her/his grammar accessible to a wider audience, including the language's speakers. I don't think the protestations of professional societies would change
that. For this reason, Publisher X has no reason to reduce its prices; it doesn't have to.</div>
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<div>On Apr 4, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Johanna NICHOLS <<a href="mailto:johanna@BERKELEY.EDU" target="_blank">johanna@BERKELEY.EDU</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Later I'll log in to the LSA Ethics blog and comment there, but quickly: Publisher X conducts peer review, has a history of publishing grammars that meet the field's standards, prints on archive-quality paper, and has advertising, distribution,
and a conference presence that make its publications known to the world. When my university judges publications by "quality", this is what it means.
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But the issue of price is critical, and no academic should have to singlehandedly fight to have a good-quality but open-access or inexpensive publication recognized by a tenure committee. This is why we have professional societies.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Mark W. Post <span dir="ltr">
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I am sending the following link on behalf of Robbins Burling, who has written a piece on the LSA's Ethics Blog to do with the high costs of many published grammars from an ethics perspective. This relates to an extended discussion on this topic on LINGTYP some
months ago, so may be of interest to listmembers. Rob has invited comments on the piece, and especially any proposed solutions.<br>
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The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine</b></span></font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span><b>Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies </b><br><b><br>Telephone: (868) 662-2002 ext. 83493 | Fax: (868) 663-5059<br>
Email 1: <a href="mailto:jtfarquharson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jtfarquharson@gmail.com</a> <br>
Email 2: <a href="mailto:joseph.farquharson@sta.uwi.edu" target="_blank">joseph.farquharson@sta.uwi.edu</a> <br></b></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span><b>Website: </b></span></font><font><a href="http://www.jotifa.com" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif"><span><b>https://sites.google.com/site/jtfarquharson/</b></span></font></a></font><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span></span></font></div>
<div><b><font face="georgia, serif">New co-edited book: <i><a href="http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLL+37" target="_blank">Variation in the Caribbean</a></i> (2011)<br></font></b><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Godliness--godlikeness--is the goal to be reached. Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good, and pure, and noble. He will advance as fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge. But his efforts will be directed to objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as the heavens are higher than the earth. - E. G. White</blockquote>
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