Open Access Pledge

This page is about pledges made prior to 2012. In 2012, the rate of pledging increased rapidly, especially in fields less beholden to conventional journals. As a consequence, the numbers pledging on their own blogs may now be too large to keep up with. A benefit of also pledging with a website like this one is that observers can see that large numbers have pledged. Outside of this website, Open Access pledges have been made by institutions (such as universities…

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Direct your volunteer reviewing efforts toward open access READ THE PETITION I pledge to devote most of my reviewing and editing efforts to manuscripts destined for open access. For other manuscripts, I will restrict myself to one review by me for each review obtained for me by an outlet that is not open access. Here, manuscripts destined for open access mean those that the authors or journal post on institutional or university repositories, or those that are made open access…

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