Just got off a call with the editor-in-chief of a journal that moved from paywall-based publishing with Cambridge University Press to university-hosted independent publishing under a diamond OA model (no APCs) with PKP/OJS.
TL;DR it's going great.
Submissions are up, quality has been maintained, and now over 50% of papers have one or more Global South-based authors (previously ~10%). @OpenAlex data]
New study: "We found that publishing #OpenAccess in #hybrid journals…confers an avg citation advantage…of 17.8 #citations…After taking [several variables] into account…we still found that OA generated significantly more citations than closed access…We found that cost itself was not predictive of citation rates…For authors with limited budgets, we recommend OA alternatives that do not require paying a fee [#DiamondOA]." https://peerj.com/articles/16824/
We're thrilled to announce another successful round of #SubscribeToOpen, making all 22 of our #S2O journals open access for 2024. Alongside our 4 #DiamondOA publications, this marks the first year that EMS Press will publish all journal content #OpenAccesshttps://bit.ly/EMS2024S2O
This is a huge success for @ems_press and the mathematics community!
It took less than 5 years to transform the EMS Press business from traditional journal subscriptions to a point where we publish all journals as #OpenAccess in 2024 with #SubscribeToOpen (22 journals) and #DiamondOA (4 journals). Faster, cheaper and more sustainable than any transformative agreement – and all this on a global scale! 😎
Thanks to all authors, editors, reviewers, subscribers, and of course our team for contributing to this. 🙌
Until now, plasma physics researchers had no APC free diamond open access journal through which disseminate their work.
This is no longer the case thanks to Jérôme Moritz, a @cnrs researcher in the Jean Lamour Institute, with the help of Episcience, CCSD and Université de Lorraine.
"The journal was previously pub'd by #Wiley-Blackwell under a subscription…model…1989-2023. As of Jan 2024, the journal & its entire back catalogue will be pub'd by the Open Library of Humanities…Thanks to the #OLH’s #DiamondOA model (funded by an international network of more than 340 supporting #libraries), Zygon is now free to read and does not charge authors publication fees."
Update. Extra kudos to #Zygon for flipping from subscription-based non-OA to #DiamondOA. Based on the cases I've seen (i.e. anecdotally), I'd say that most subscription journals that flip to OA flip to #APC-based OA. They do that either because it's the only OA model they know about (depressingly common) or because it seems to be more lucrative and less risky.
Has anyone seen data on this? What % of subscription journals flipping to OA flip to APC-based OA and what % to diamond OA?
Evin Dalkilic und Marcel Wrzesinski über ihr neues #DiamondOA-Projekt beim @verfassungsblog und HIIG (nicht bei Mastodon?). Sie erforschen dessen Rechtslage, genauer gesagt ein rechtliches Spezial-Problem in der öffentlichen Finanzierung, das Diamond #OpenAccess behindert:
"Und gerade weil alles frei verfügbar ist, weil Aufsätze und Bücher ohne APC und Paywall veröffentlicht werden, vertreten manche Bibliotheken den Standpunkt, dass sie aus Gründen der Wirtschaftlichkeit und Sparsamkeit gebührenfreies Open Access gar nicht finanzieren dürfen. Ob das tatsächlich so gilt, weiß offenbar niemand genau. Eine vertiefte rechtliche Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Frage fehlt bislang. Diese Lücke möchten wir mit unserem Projekt schließen."
New study: A survey of journal editors in the field of #LIS shows that most journals that do not publish #DiamondOA (either they charge #APCs or they do not publish OA at all) "have not discussed transitioning to a no-publishing fee OA model, and that finances are the main barrier. Most also indicated a lack of awareness of their journal’s budget. The most popular no-publishing fee OA model was #SubscribeToOpen." https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26170
Background: An APC-based OA journal (Ecosphere from #Wiley) refused to publish a rebuttal article unless the rebuttal authors paid an #APC. Kudos to Web Ecology for publishing the rebuttal without an APC. Also see the Web Ecology editorial on this case. https://we.copernicus.org/articles/23/131/2023/
Delighted to see this news is out: @themitpress will be moving two big European Sociological Association journals from paywalled/"hybrid" (at Taylor & Francis) to diamond OA with MIT Press 🎉 🍾 💯
The two journals "are the inaugural beneficiaries of the shift+OPEN program, an initiative by the MIT Press aimed at facilitating the transition of traditional journals to diamond open access."
"Diamond Open Access, understood as fee-free publication for both reading and publishing, built and uphold by scholarly and scientific entities, as well as Green Open Access, are noncommercial landmarks compatible with the paradigm of public goods and are inclusive by nature."
New species concept just dropped ... no, wait, it actually seems useful. Wayne Maddison & Jeannette Whitton published in @SystBiol's #DiamondOA BSSB so it's free to read and free to authors. Even if the concept itself doesn't take off, I think lots of lectures are going to use the figures and ideas.
Thanks to Electronic Information for Libraries (@eiflnet), African Journals Online (#AJOL), the West and Central African Research and Education Network (#WACREN), and the #Wellcome Trust.
It mentions APC discounts and read-and-publish agreements. But it doesn't mention no-APC (#DiamondOA) journals or the fact that most peer-reviewed OA journals (≈ 70%) are no-APC. Nor does it mention #GreenOA.
"OA publishing allows publishers to generate revenue during the production process…Large commercial publishing houses have gained increasing control over the OA publishing market, which is moving towards an oligopoly market."
PS: These authors recognize that not all OA journals charge APCs (#DiamondOA). On the one hand, their data only show a decline in submissions from the south for APC-based OA journals. But their imprecise writing attributes it to OA as such.
Update. This new study concludes (in effect) that authors with less funding to pay #APCs are less likely to publish in APC-based #OpenAccess journals. But it words the conclusion this way: "Open access [without qualification] may become a barrier to the dissemination of work for researchers who have financial difficulty choosing open access."
"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-024-09978-0
PS: This is careless and misleading. APCs are the barrier, not OA. The article doesn't mention no-fee #GreenOA or #DiamondOA.