8 New Open-Access Communication Journals
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For Immediate Release
8 New Open-Access Communication Journals Promote Scholars' Works and Let Them Keep Their Copyrights
Eight new open-access scientific journals that focus on communication processes and effects will allow submitters to retain the copyright to their articles and will promote the contents of the journals to more than 40,000 scholars, librarians, journalists and policy makers around the world.
"No other privately owned publishing house in the United States offers such advantages to scholars and to libraries," said David Demers, publisher of Marquette Books LLC, which publishes the journals. "Marquette Books hopes to attract the best scholarship in communication in the world, because we believe the future of scientific publishing is open-access and that scholars, rather than publishers, should retain control over the copyrights to their works."
Demers said libraries will be able to add links to the free Web portal when the journals are published. Two of the journals are currently in production, and the rest will be published later in 2008. Hard copies of the journals also will be distributed free of charge to universities that have major mass communication programs.
Demers, who also works as a mass communication professor at a Division I research institution, has been highly critical over the past year of big publishers who have been increasing their subscription rates. "Some have been holding higher education libraries hostage," he said. "They keep raising the subscription rates to the journals year after year, knowing that the libraries will keep paying the high costs. But scientific information, especially that created with the assistance of federal or state tax money, should be widely available and priced as inexpensively as possible."
The eight journals and their editors (and e-mail contact information) are
Journal of Global Mass Communication, co-edited by Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Zurich, th.hanitzsch@ipmz.uzh.ch and P. Eric Louw, Univeristy of Queensland, e.louw@uq.edu.au
Russian Journal of Communication, Igor Klyukanov, Eastern Washington University, iklyukanov@mail.ewu.edu
Journal of Health & Mass Communication, Fiona Chew, Syracuse University, cmrfchew@syr.edu
Journal of Media Law & Ethics, Eric B. Easton, University of Baltimore School of Law, eeaston@ubalt.edu
American Journal of Media Psychology, Michael G. Elasmar, Boston University, elasmar@bu.edu
Journal of Media Sociology, Michael R. Cheney, University of Illinios, mrcheney@uiuc.edu
Journal of Communication Studies, Lawrence W. Hugenberg, Kent State University, lhugenbe@kent.edu
International Journal of Media & Foreign Affairs, Peter Gross, University of Tennesee, pgross@utk.edu
More information about the journals can be found at www.marquettejournals.org. To find out how your library can connect to these journals free of charge, please e-mail or call Marquette Books. This e-mail may be copied and distributed free of charge.
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