Author: Peter Suber
Publisher: SPARC Open Access/Welcome to the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #125 September 2, 2008
Prestige and quality overlaps. Journals can equally gain prestige and receive equal promotion from their respective committee, most likely, researcher will focus on their research and doesn’t even care where it will be published. Prestige is growing in the Open Access Community and many authors are now attracted to publish their works on the open access. Though many OA journals are really new, but this is not a reason that it could be of quality like Toll Access Journals. Prestige could be a result of quality and quality is feed by prestige.
Three things I learned
I learned that though many researcher because they are new, they are publishing their works on Open publishing.
However, It doesn’t mean that even they are new, they cannot be good and reliable researcher.
I learned that even though works are being publish in an Open Access publishing, still they can be motivated by the challenge of gaining initial prestige and that prestige can be a motivation for quality.
I think as a librarian, I really have to consider the resources that the library is giving for their clients. However, there are already lots of available in the internet. Maybe we can acquire for this kind of access for our library. To give way for new researcher and at the same time, learn from their thoughts.
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