1/ I'm sympathetic to #NIH-funded authors who want to publish in certain #APC-based #OpenAccess journals and can't find the money to pay the APCs. But it's false to say that they must publish in those journals, in any other APC-based OA journals, or even in OA journals. Shame on _Inside Higher Ed_ for leaving this false impression..
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/05/nih-policy-holding-researchers-hostage

PS: I repeat: Compliance with the NIH OA policy is free of charge. Moreover, compliance is all about depositing in a certain repository, not publishing in a certain journal or kind of journal. The NIH has a #GreenOA policy, not a #GoldOA policy. The same is true for all the other federal agencies with OA policies, not just the NIH. When a journal charges NIH-funded authors an APC to publish, the fee is to publish in that particular journal, not to comply with the NIH policy. Don't be fooled by the widespread misunderstanding that compliance with these policies requires paying any kind of fee. Don't be fooled by journals and publishers that cynically spread this myth themselves or leave it uncorrected. You can help by correcting this falsehood wherever you see it. You can also help by working with hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding committees to care more about the quality of research than the journals in which it is published.

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#APCs #NelsonMemo #NIH #OpenAccess #OAintheUSA #PublicAccess #Repositories

The preprint went through open peer review on @MetaROR and was later published, after additional blind review rounds, in the partner Journal of Data and Information Science #JDIS – a demanding but very useful experience.

:oa: https://doi.org/10.70744/MetaROR.179.2.ea

#OpenAccess #publishing #Ukraine #bibliometrics #GoldOA

My new paper on Ukrainian researchers’ publishing activity in Gold Open Access journals during the war has just been published. I focused on five major publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE):

:doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0059

Ukrainian papers in fully Gold OA journals of these publishers grew by more than 50% in 2023, with further growth in 2024.

#OpenAccess #publishing #Ukraine #bibliometrics #GoldOA

[Veille] vidéos des 2 journées "30 ans de Mathdoc" en ligne sur
@canal-u.bsky.social
=> https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/cm/mathdoc-30-annees-au-service-de-la-communaute-mathematique
Supports ici https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/14572/timetable/
#maths #openaccess #openscience #journals #commons #DiamondOA #GOldOA #GreenOA #researchdata

Hier, intervention à la conférence "Collaborations in Algebra, Representation theory and Ethics" organisée à l'UMPA de l' @ENSdeLyon pour parler #openscience et #openaccess avec F. Codet et Filippo A.E. Nuccio devant de jeunes mathématiciens, dans le cadre des débats sur l'éthique en sciences. Super expérience. Merci aux organisateurs !
🔗 https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/caremath/home-page
#ethics #maths #APC #academicpublishing #GreenOA #GoldOA #DiamondOA

A new preprint on Ukrainian publications in Gold Open Access has a very telling Figure 12. And you know what? It’s a total disaster.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

It turns out that the largest shares of our APC spending go to MDPI and the Polish Aluna Publishing House. Even worse — the top list also includes “famous” players like WSEAS, Sciedu Press, and the Georgian Association of Business Press = dubious publishers.

#OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #Ukraine #Science #APC #GoldOA

New study: "Open access publishing: is urology ready? A survey of authors, readers, and editorial board’s knowledge, impressions and satisfaction."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00345-025-05928-3
(#paywalled)

Not a good way to run a survey or report the results.

* The results are paywalled.
* The article does not include the survey questions.
* The survey defines #GoldOA, #GreenOA, #DiamondOA, and #HybridOA. But the article only reports the attitudes toward APC-based gold OA. No surprise, they're negative. Yet disdain for #APCs only strengthens the reason to ask about green and diamond OA. If the survey did ask, then what are the answers? If it didn't ask, then why not?
* The survey gives a false definition of green OA, saying that it's always embargoed. That's especially odd since under current US federal agency policies, it's never embargoed.

#Embargoes #ScholComm

The _Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing_ is converting from #hybrid to #APC-based #OpenAccess. One of its motives to escape the #DoubleDipping of the hybrid model. "Although this hybrid approach was well-intentioned, it created a paradoxical situation where institutions pay [and publishers receive] both subscription fees and publication charges."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10877-025-01342-7

PS: Glad to see it acknowledge the double dipping. Too many hybrid journals don't do that. Next step, escape the inequity and author-side barriers of the APC model.

#APCs #GoldOA #ReadAndPublish #ScholComm #SpringerNature

@Luke_Drury @deevybee

In my field, #DigitalHumanities, MDPI is a very minor player. A healthy ecosystem of #DiamondOA exists, alongside a small number of #GoldOA options other than MDPI.

The journal I help run, @jcls, is also DiamondOA and entirely scholar-led. While we are recent and small, we are very happy with international uptake and quality of submissions.

I also help run a DH collection on ORE, and it is doing ok but not great, I guess.

#NIH to crack down on excessive publisher #fees for publicly funded #research

https://www.stm-publishing.com/nih-to-crack-down-on-excessive-publisher-fees-for-publicly-funded-research/

#APC #APCs #GoldOA #FairGold #OpenAccess #OpenScience ##science #publishing #PubliclyFundedResearch

@jomla Lacking context here, but I continue to think #OpenAccess is absolutely great!

The problem is that #GoldOA / #transformative agreements turn out to be not cool at all, but people pretend or believe that's the only way to accomplish OA.

The true way forward is scholar-led #DiamondOA based on open infrastructure. And yes, that means shifting budgets away from DEAL to support #DiamondOA instead. There's plenty of money in the system to do so.

The #NIH just announced that it will "cap how much #publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible."
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-crack-down-excessive-publisher-fees-publicly-funded-research

We don't yet know the cap or how NIH will calculate or enforce it.

#APCs #DefendResearch #GoldOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Here's a published article making a cluster of false claims about #OpenAccess journals: "In the OA model…costs are…covered by Article Processing Charges (#APCs) paid by the authors (#GoldOA); in relatively rare cases, some funders cover the full costs of a journal (#DiamondOA) to make it free for readers and authors alike."
https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608614/full

1. It claims that most OA journals charge APCs and that diamond OA journals are rare. But most OA journals do NOT charge APCs and diamond OA journals predominate.

Today the #DOAJ (@DOAJ) lists 21,597 OA journals, of which 13,735 or 63.5% are diamond.
https://doaj.org/

2. It claims that at APC-based OA journals, APCs are (always) paid by authors. But while this tends to be true in the global south, even there it's only a tendency, not a universal truth. In the north, APCs are usually NOT paid by authors but by their funders or employers.
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9

3. There are many ways to fund a diamond or non-APC OA journals, not just by having funders cover their costs.

BTW, this piece is called a "commentary" and might not have been peer-reviewed.

In the rest of the piece, the authors complain about misunderstandings of their journal.

#India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of #openaccess - https://walledculture.org/india-spends-715-million-on-academic-journals-but-with-the-wrong-kind-of-open-access/ well, that's a pity #goldoa #diamondoa

India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open access

Numerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, since its successful implementation […]

#apcs #businessModels #diamondOa #funders #gatesFoundation #goldOa #grants #india #openAccess #plos #profits

https://walledculture.org/india-spends-715-million-on-academic-journals-but-with-the-wrong-kind-of-open-access/

Advancing #OpenScience
In 2024, we supported open science through #GoldOA, #DiamondOA, and #SubscribeToOpen. This year, Radioprotection successfully transitioned to #OpenAccess, while
#AandA_journal and mathematics journals thrived!
👉https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7274445829388619779/

A recent survey of faculty at an R1 #university (with most respondents from the social sciences) revealed strong objections to #APCs at #OA #journals and deep ignorance of OA #repositories.
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/17647/galley/16356/view/

The survey did not ask whether respondents were familiar with no-APC (#DiamondOA) OA journals.

#GoldOA #GreenOA #OpenAccess

New study: "The #OpenAccess publication rate [on #pharmaceutical topics] was higher for pharmaceutical companies than for academic institutions and continues to increase."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.14.613042v1

#Academia #GoldOA #Pharma #ScholComm #Universities
@academicchatter

Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.

An article in Chemical & Engineering […]

#apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv

https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/