@article{d023f4b116f84589b023a5cb3de9d701,
title = "Editorial: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 30 issue 2",
abstract = "In this editorial we would like to discuss and comment on some of the some of the recent international developments in open access publishing as well as welcome the new members of our editorial board. As a journal with a long history of free open access with no charges for authors or readers, we have been able to avoid some of the complex decisions and trade-offs that authors, readers and institutions now have to make in choosing where to publish their work. Nevertheless, we feel that it would be valuable to explore some of the terminology around open access publishing to help readers and authors navigate the territory. In writing this editorial we have drawn upon some recent work undertaken by Laura Czerniewicz of the University of Cape Town, one of the new members of AJET{\textquoteright}s Editorial Board (see below). Czerniewicz and Goodier (in press) undertook a case study of the practices of authors at one institution, along with the practices of the leading journals that these authors published in, with a focus on the consequences of the emergence of various open access publishing models.",
author = "Barney Dalgarno and Sue Bennett and Gregor Kennedy",
note = "Funding Information: There have been a number of drivers for the introduction of open access publishing: First, grant providers wanting to see the results of funded research made freely available have begun to require that outputs from grants are available open access (see, for example, the Australian Research Council{\textquoteright}s policy at http://www.arc.gov.au/applicants/open_access.htm). Czerniewicz and Goodier (in press) point out that there has been substantial misrepresentation of the expectations of grant providers with regard to open access publication, with many researchers assuming that this requires publication in journals providing gold open access (many of which charge author fees), when in fact most grant providers are comfortable with green open access (repository based). Second, authors wanting to increase the reach of their publications have begun to explore open access as a way to allow more readers to obtain affordable and convenient access to their work. Consistent with this, Czerniewicz and Goodier cite studies demonstrating that citation rates are measurably higher for open access articles and this difference is particularly significant in relation to citations from authors from developing countries.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.14742/ajet.1888",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "1--4",
journal = "Australasian Journal of Educational Technology",
issn = "1449-3098",
publisher = "Australian Society for Educational Technology",
number = "2",
}