Can we all agree that ethics is an important component of
scholarly publishing - whether open access or not?
There are business practices and editorial policies that
might
tend to favor ethical practices. Most of these factors will
be
exactly the same for all publishers, whether open access or
not.
Relying heavily on advertising revenue from a commercial
interest
which could have a vested interest in the published outcome
of
research studies, for example, leaves a journal open to
editorial
interference. Avoiding such reliance is a good idea -
whether a
journal is open access, or not.
So many journals are hybrids nowadays anyways - partially
open
access, OA choices, free back issues, etc. - that it may not
make
much sense anymore to distinguish OA and non-OA publishing.
chrs,
Heather G. Morrison
http://poeticecon
omics.blogspot.com
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