The Open Access Apocalypse
In this post I am going to highlight a few conservation open access journals.
However, first I want to comment on one aspect of my recent survey, the results so far indicate that, 82% of respondents have ‘read’ open access conservation material, with 12% saying they ‘haven’t’ and 6% saying ‘other’ (I presume meaning they are unsure). It was good to see that 37% of respondents had ‘been published’ in open access format, but, worrying that 17% said they ‘did not want to be’ published in open access format.
I say worrying, because I believe, and hope that conservation journals en-masse make the necessary decision to convert their content, and ethos, to an open access format. I feel that if they fail to do so we will loose these valuable resources, because there really is no getting away from the fact that the future of publishing is open access, and the future of research will be based primarily on open access material – for the simple benefits that text mining and other techniques will allow.
On this blog I have previously discussed aspects to do with two excellent open access journals/magazines. I of course refer to E-Conservation and CeROArt: Conservation, exposition et Restauration d’Objets d’Art. However, these are not the only open access journals that carry conservation content.
Here are some more:
* City&Time
* Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage
* E-Preservation Science
* International Journal of Digital Curation
* International Journal of Intangible Heritage
* Kunst texte
* Kronos
* Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
* Revista de Urbanismo
* Recent Setbacks in Conservation
* Web Journal on Cultural Patrimony
A good resource for finding open access journals is: [ Directory of Open Access Journals].
However, DOAJ has very strict guidelines as to what counts as a journal, versus for example a magazine – in terms of ratio’s of peer reviewed articles, reviews, etc, and so there are more than likely many more journals out there that don’t meet the criteria. I would love to hear what other open access journals are out there… so please do post any url’s in the comments, thanks.
Another useful Open Access Resource is:
* OAD: Open Access Directory.
Some useful and interesting statements on Open Access include:
* The Berlin Declaration.
* The Bethesda Statement.
* The Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement.
Hi; many thanks for these, I think there’s a few here I haven’t spotted yet. I’ve just finished spending four months building a large 3,000-title search-engine for free humanities ejournal titles, which includes most of these titles and more. The engine is at http://jurn.org/ and a partial (English-language titles mostly) selection of 1,700 linked titles can also be browsed via the Directory at http://jurn.org/directory/ You’ll find the following areas interesting: anthropology, history, and conservation and organisation of knowledge. The Directory uses the home-page URLs, where the search-engine is careful to use the (often radically different) “direct-to-article” URLs.
Thanks for the links! This is great stuff.
UNESCO also have an open access journal series online that I totally forgot to include above: http://whc.unesco.org/en/series/ and a newsletter http://whc.unesco.org/en/newsletter/
also… I’ll probably be adding more into the comments section as I find them, and please everyone else add more too!
Hi! I’ve been reading your blog for a few hours now and loving it. And it all started with a bunch of words search “conservation ideas information tools”. Keep writing and I’ll keep reading. Thanks for the list of Open Access journals; they come to be very handy now!
Thanks for the comment! Glad it was useful.