Hi all, A request from this junior scholar person who is also partial to OA publishing but has to repeatedly justify during job hunting why the journals I have published in are not the (usually paywalled) ones that the University deems to be top-tier/mainstream/etc hegemonic vocabulary: If you have a statement of sorts of your publishing ethic/preference, could you kindly share it? It would be supremely helpful to learn how to convey this professionally. I imagine something along the lines of "I am partial to publishing in OA journals as part of my ethic towards public scholarship... I write in a wide range of publicly accessible media online to socialize research..." Thanks in advance! /C ----- Dr Crystal Abidin, PhD wishcrys.com Lecturer, SCCA, Deakin University Postdoctoral Fellow, MMTC, Jönköping University Researcher, Handelsrådet Adjunct Research Fellow, CCAT, Curtin University Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Pacific Standard Magazine 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 Recent publications: *Introduction to Microcelebrity Around the Globe <https://www.academia.edu/37915705/Abidin_Crystal_and_Megan_Lindsay_Brown._2019._Introduction._Pp._1-18_in_Microcelebrity_Around_the_Globe_Approaches_to_cultures_of_internet_fame_edited_by_Crystal_Abidin_and_Megan_Lindsay_Brown._Bingley_UK_Emerald_Publishing>* *Gay, famous and Working Hard on YouTube <https://www.academia.edu/37915675/Abidin_Crystal_and_Rob_Cover._2019._Gay_famous_and_Working_Hard_on_YouTube_Influencers_queer_microcelebrity_publics_and_discursive_activism._Pp._217-231_in_Youth_Sexuality_and_Sexual_Citizenship_edited_by_Peter_Aggleton_et_al._London_and_New_York_Routledge>* *Histories and Cultures of Emoji Vernaculars <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/607/showToc>* *Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the memification of student issues <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1437204?scroll=top&needAccess=true>* On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 15:48, Mittell, Jason S. <jmittell@middlebury.edu> wrote:
Jill et. al.,
The best overall resource is the Directory of Open Access Journals: https://doaj.org/
I'll plug the journal I co-run, [in]Transition< http://mediacommons.org/intransition>, which publishes video essays rather than written articles.
I'd also take a moment to ask everyone to consider their own publishing and reviewing practices, and how they contribute to access & openness, rather than profiteering by private companies off of the free labor of academics. If you are in the position to do so, consider pledging not to publish in, edit, and/or review for commercially-owned journals.
-Jason
--- Jason Mittell, Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv
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