The journal's webpage for submissions is here. The editorial board is just about as distinguished as it could get. Editors don't write a journal, but the prestige of this board ought to make this a good venue to have on one's cv.
5 responses to “Journal of American Philosophical Association Launches”
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This post is strangely at odds with the message carried elsewhere on newapps, that what we need to do to deal with the ridiculous situation in which publishers have so much power is to give up on our notion of ‘prestige’ journals. Or, yeah, we could go with Matthen and just all agree that there’s a new a prestige journal in town, and bring them up to a 98% rejection rate asap, and let the publisher get a stranglehold on our library budgets and put up paywalls to everyone without cash, while giving our labour for free by reviewing for them. Nice joined-up thinking: submit!
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Just out of curiosity, do you know how much JAPA is going to cost?
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It’s a regrettably missed opportunity not to make this journal open access. The APA, of all organizations, has the resources to do this and if membership fees do not cover running the journal, why not follow Philosophers’ Imprint example and ask people to pay a small fee to submit their work. This is not ideal either, but I think many institutions can provide at least this funding (as opposed to the massive fees for-profit presses like Springer ask for Open Access).
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Open access is great. I think the idea of pushing the costs to authors has bad unintended consequences, however. Many in the humanities do not have outside funding or grants that cover publication costs. Universities typically have libraries, even if they do not subscribe to all possible journals, but are less likely to pay publication costs. The pay-to-publish (or to submit) model is going to hurt adjuncts and the like as well as people from poorer countries and institutions. This is less of a problem in the sciences, since the grant mechanism is so much more developed and the funding opportunities so much greater.
As an aside, I think the move in science towards pay-to-publish may hurt philosophers of science who want to publish in scientific journals for exactly the same reason. This is making a bad situation worse: I, for example, recently decided not to include a diagram in a paper since diagrams cost money I do not have. That’s even before pay-to-submit.LikeLike
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A couple points: newapps is not a borg. We post individually and sometimes disagree. So there is no norm of a “consistent message” – sorry to brng complexity to your life.
The journal will be free online to all apa members. Not the same as open access, but surely a good step. Given this, there is little reason for libraries to pay anything, npmuch less be strangled.LikeLike
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