hypocrite?

Quick post on an important topic.  I don’t publish in OA journals 100% of the time…. almost always, but not always.  What gives?

This deserves more discussion than I’ll give it in this post, but here’s a recent response to someone who was rightly curious about the following links to my three most recent papers:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bult.2013.1720390404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bult.2013.1720390405
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7431/full/493159a.html

Here was my response:

Great question.  The first two are actually also available OA, under a CC-BY license (though I was disappointed to see the publishers didn’t make the CC-BY license clear, and I didn’t know that they would also appear in a format that makes it look like they are subscription only… I’m unhappy about that but oh well).

• http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar.html  (includes paragraph about CC-BY of the whole collection)
• http://asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/AprMay13_Piwowar_Priem.html

The final one was upon invitation from Nature.  I hemmed and hawwed about whether to do it, since it wasn’t OA, but decided ultimately to go for it because (a) it was an opinion piece not primary research, and (b) if opinion pieces about open things are only published in open places, they miss many audiences that aren’t yet convinced about the value of open.  I tried to mitigate lack of open by publishing as much preprint about it as I could, negotiating hard for no paywall for its first week, and I’ll post the preprint as soon as I can (I think  July 10th?  will double check)