OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings

Bosman, Jeroen; Frantsvåg, Jan Erik; Krämer, Bianca; Langlais, Pierre-Carl; Proudman, Vanessa

doi:10.5281/zenodo.4558704

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“…Some large institutions have already engaged in the creation or support of diamond OA journals (Becerril, Arianna et al 2021;Bosman et al 2021) or publishers of such journals (e.g., SciPost). However, this trend remains scarce, the financial efforts behind it are limited, and these journals often have limited audiences.…”

Section: Support Healthy Journalsmentioning

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Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?

Racimo

Galtier

Herde

et al. 2022

Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology

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The academic journal publishing model is deeply unethical: today, a few major, for-profit conglomerates control more than 50% of all articles in the natural sciences and social sciences, driving subscription and open-access publishing fees above levels that can be sustainably maintained by publicly funded universities, libraries, and research institutions worldwide. About a third of the costs paid for publishing papers is profit for these dominant publishers' shareholders, and about half of them covers costs to keep the system running, including lobbying, marketing fees, and paywalls. The paywalls in turn restrict access of scientific outputs, preventing them from being freely shared with the public and other researchers. Thus, money that the public is told goes into science is actually being funneled away from it, or used to limit access to it. Alternatives to this model exist and have increased in popularity in recent years, including diamond open-access journals and community-driven recommendation models. These are free of charge for authors and minimize costs for institutions and agencies, while making peer-reviewed scientific results publicly accessible. However, for-profit publishing agents have made change difficult, by co-opting open-access schemes and creating journal-driven incentives that prevent an effective collective transition away from profiteering. Here, we give a brief overview of the current state of the academic publishing system, including its most important systemic problems. We then describe alternative systems. We explain the reasons why the move toward them can be perceived as costly to individual researchers, and we demystify common roadblocks to change. Finally, in view of the above, we provide a set of guidelines and recommendations that academics at all levels can implement, in order to enable a more rapid and effective transition toward ethical publishing.

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Section: Support Healthy Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?

Racimo

Galtier

Herde

et al. 2022

Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology

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“…Geochemists have no interest in or ability to pay APCs, but they also are not inclined to put their work behind a paywall with ever-restricted access. Diamond OA journals are still too few in geochemistry [28], and a new journal (what about Geokimica) based on the model of Volcanica or Tektonika should be part of the solution.…”

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“…Negotiation of contracts between institutions and publishers that include blanket OA remuneration for authors at covered organizations is one conceivable future outcome. However, unless a new access paradigm emerges, the geochemical community may be forced to forsake foundational journals in favor of alternative, low-cost, or diamond OA venues (like Geochemical Perspectives Letters and Volcanica) [28].…”

Section: Moving From Paywall To Fully Open Accessmentioning

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Open Access in Geochemistry from Preprints to Data Sharing: Past, Present, and Future

Pourret

Irawan

2022

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“…No chamado "modelo diamante de acesso aberto" (diamond open access), promovido atualmente por diversas organizações internacionais relevantes no universo da ciência, a natureza do acesso aberto torna-se ainda mais nítida e completa. Nesse modelo, incluem-se as revistas científicas (e outras plataformas de publicação) que dão acesso aberto aos leitores e não cobram pagamentos aos autores (Bosman et al, 2021). É interessante registar o modo como um documento recente de apresentação do Action Plan for Diamond Open Access caracteriza a constelação atual das revistas cuja prática editorial se compagina com o modelo diamante de acesso aberto:…”

Section: Questões E Desafios Atuais Da Publicação Científicaunclassified

Publicação científica e ciências sociais: 100 números da revista Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas

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Martins²,

Pintassilgo³

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O presente artigo analisa a importância das revistas científicas na constituição e no desenvolvimento dos campos científicos. Analisa também um conjunto de questões de fundo que estas revistas enfrentam atualmente. Toma como caso de estudo a revista Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. Esta revista surgiu no processo de institucionalização da área da sociologia em Portugal. Está agora a publicar o seu número 100, após 37 anos de publicação continuada. Este artigo analisa o contexto, o perfil e as fases desta revista científica que tem como foco principal a sociologia, mas que está aberta igualmente a contribuições interdisciplinares de outras ciências sociais. Este artigo discute ainda um conjunto de problemas com que estas revistas académicas presentemente se confrontam: a publicação científica em acesso aberto; a avaliação por pares; as novas plataformas de publicação científica; e a tensão entre publicação internacional e impacto social contextual.

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OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings

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Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?

Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?

Open Access in Geochemistry from Preprints to Data Sharing: Past, Present, and Future

Publicação científica e ciências sociais: 100 números da revista Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas

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