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Re: [xmca] FW: Invitation to Submit an Article

I am sure a lot of us will sympathise with you, Jenna. I got my work known in the same way as you have: by putting stuff up on my own website. I guess the article I got into MCA in 2005 had some impact as a warrant that I was 'legit'. But if one is meeting the criteria for a PhD, selfpublishing on the web won't help. But I don't think MCA and it's unpaid peer reviewers are there to save on salaries for academic supervision.
But if you mean that going electronic will be a means of simply increasing the number of papers published, then I think that is exactly the concern people have about the quality warrant of electronic publication. But still, MCA and LCHC are continuing to work on creating opportunities for electronic publication. I hope we will soon see an outcome, which will include the opportunity for people associated with MCA, such as XMCA participants, to publish electronically.
One of MCA's sister journals, "Outlines. Critical Practice Studies" publishes electronically, but their manuscripts are subject to peer review, etc. 

Andy

jennamcjenna@gmail.com wrote:
Andy, 
Can you explain further why you take this position? I ask as someone who is consistently frustrated by an inability to access the work published in MCA.

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On Mar 4, 2012, at 3:33 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:


When Jorge and Martin and I stepped up as editors of MCA we had a lot of discussion about if/when we should move MCA to an open access/internet model. This kind of development - i.e., fraudulent scientific journals published electronically for no cost to the publisher or reader, which will clearly continue - means that the status of electronic publication is irrevocably degraded, and so rules out, really, the possibility of moving MCA to such a format. - The value of your research is warranted by the time and trouble other people have gone to to put it in print.

Andy

Peter Smagorinsky wrote:

The sale on journal space continues.........

-----Original Message-----
From: Education Research International [mailto:edu@journals.hindawi.com] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:12 AM
To: Peter Smagorinsky
Subject: Invitation to Submit an Article

Dear Dr. Smagorinsky,

I am writing to invite you to submit an article to Education Research International which provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles as well as original review articles in all areas of education.

Education Research International is published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers are able to freely access the journal online at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/edu/contents/ without the need for a subscription. All manuscripts that are submitted to the journal during the month of March 2012 will not be subject to any page charges, color charges, or article processing charges for submitted or accepted articles.

The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has a broad international coverage. A current list of the journal's editors can be found at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/edu/editors/.

Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online at http://mts.hindawi.com/author/submit/edu/. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the journal.

Best regards,

Marwa Elmasri

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