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

[Osborn, Raymond]

Although NIM-A is probably a reasonable journal for this kind of publication, I actually signed a pledge a few years back never to publish in or referee for an Elsevier journal because, as a member of the Argonne Library Committee, I saw how exorbitant their costs were compared to other higher impact journals and the impact it was having on the library budget (http://www.nature.com/news/elsevier-boycott-gathers-pace-1.10010). They also screwed up our page counts by formatting errors when I was publication chair of a major conference, but fortunately I had been warned this often happened, and we had a prior agreement that they would cover the cost if they made a mistake. So it’s fair to say, I’m not a fan of Elsevier.

I wouldn’t expect to impose my pledge on others if the rest of the co-authors are strongly in favor of NIM-A, but I thought I should mention it.

Ray

On Oct 3, 2014, at 6:59 AM, <Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk> <Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:

> The NIM A open access fee is $2200 (potentially plus tax).
> http://www.elsevier.com/journals/nuclear-instruments-and-methods-in-physics-research-section-a-accelerators-spectrometers-detectors-and-associated-equipment/0168-9002/guide-for-authors#13510
> 
> Tobias
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NeXus-committee [mailto:nexus-committee-bounces at nexusformat.org]
>> On Behalf Of Herbert J. Bernstein
>> Sent: 03 October 2014 11:53
>> To: j.wuttke
>> Cc: nexus-committee at nexusformat.org
>> Subject: Re: [NeXus-committee] where to publish: why not open access?
>> 
>> 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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