A few weeks ago, danah boyd posted an excellent rant urging professors to fight the knowledge cartels otherwise known as the high-profit-margin industry of academic publishing by taking our work to open-access journals, thus breaking “the corporate stranglehold over scholarly knowledge in order to make your knowledge broadly accessible.”
I already commented on her post with my agreement and thoughts, but it occurred to me that I didn’t really know much about open-access journals in my field. Quite possibly I’m an idiot for not already knowing this, but part of the problem is that I’m not a publishing machine like some in my cohort. But I polled some smarter folks than I and I’m posting a list here. If you know more, holler in the comments.
Open Access Journals in Journalism and Mass Communication
International Journal of Communication
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication
JOMEC (Journalism, Media, Cultural Studies)
Web Journal of Mass Communication Research
Thanks to Amy Schmitz-Weiss, Josh Braun, Sue Robinson, Matt Carlson, Nikki Usher, Hans Meyer and Chris Anderson for their input on this list.
Great idea. I wonder if this kind of thing exists for media studies….
Thanks Carrie for putting this list together and including Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication. I’m going to explore some of the others I had not heard of…