[NeXus-committee] where to publish: why not open access?

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

I agree about the desirability of open access, but that may involve a
significant fee.
If that is an issue, inasmuch as we have credited NIH, we can and
should take advantage
of the NIH open access publication policy which requires  making NIH funded
articles open access after 1 year.   J. Appl. Crsyt participates in
that system as a "Method A" journal (with no fee) and also allows
immediate open access for a reasonable fee ($1000 US).  RSI also
participate in that system as a "Method A" journal (no fee for fewer
than 10 pages) or we can have immediate open access for the RSI open
access fee of $2200 US.  I don't see a similar set of arrangements for
NIM A online, but it would not
hurt to ask them.

My budget is very tight, so I would not be able to contribute much to
an open access
fee and would favor using one of the Method A journals  without a page
charge that
is willing to make the paper open access after a 1 year delay.

Regards,
    Herbert

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:42 AM, j.wuttke <j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> The NeXus docs are released under the FDL, and associated software under the LGPL.
> I dislike the idea of putting a description of all this behind Elsevier's paywall.
> Please let us consider an open-access journal.
> PLOS ONE explicitly invites descriptions of methods, software, databases, or other
> tools [http://www.plosone.org/static/publication].
> - Joachim
>
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