pen Access Journals in Nursing

LINDA HAUCK & BARBARA QUINTILIANO, FALVEY MEMORIAL LIBRARYNOVEMBER 10 & 12, 2015

Would you or wouldn’t you publish your research in this open access journal?

Open Access is not for me

Perception of tenure and promotion committee members Stop those annoying spam emails about publishing, editing and

reviewing! Potential loss of reputation…Bohannon sting Fear & loathing of “Predatory Publishers” Potential loss of copyright Are they really peer reviewed? Way too $expensive$ article processing charges

Open Access is the way to go

Perception of tenure and promotion committee members Perceptions of my research peers Potentially greater impact among scholars Potentially wider impact outside discipline and academia Quicker publication cycle Social good gained by making scholarship widely available Contributing to suppressing overall journal costs

The What and Why of Open Access “Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and

licensing restrictions.”Source: Suber, P. (2012) Open Access. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access

“Electronic publication now enables preparation, distribution, access, and archiving of articles at a fraction of the cost of the comparable print publications of earlier times.  However, the subscription costs to university libraries of many major journals do not reflect these reduced costs…  

The federal government makes massive investments in researchers, staff, and facilities to advance knowledge; publishers do not.  Universities similarly make big investments in research. University faculty generally are the authors, editors, and reviewers of the articles coming out of that research. To get their articles published, faculty usually must transfer significant copyrights to the publishers. Then the publishers sell back to the universities the very content they as a group produced, and at steadily higher subscription prices. The system is fundamentally broken.Source: http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-statement-on-resignation-of-linguas-editors--editorial-board-members-in-protest-of-elseviers-pricing-policies

The Journal Context: Revenue Models

Open Access-Author or Funder Pays

Ads

Funder & Institution Subsidies

Article Processing Charges

Subscription- Reader Pays

Ads

Submission Fees

Site Licenses Subscriptions

The Journal Context: Organization Models

For Profit Springer Publishing: Private Company

Open Access publisher of BioMed Central and many subscription journals.

Hindawi: private, foreign, commercial, open access

Elsevier foreign, public company, publishes subscription, hybrid and gold open access (Asian Nursing Research), 2008 Margin 33.4%

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer (foreign, public) publishes subscription, many for societies, 2008 Margin 12.5%.

Non-Profit PLOS Medicine: California Non-Profit,

public financials, all open access journals., 2008 Margin -14.7%

American Medical Association: society, public financials, mostly subscription models, 2008 Margin 55%

Source Margins: Dorsey, E. R., George, B. P., Dayoub, E. J., & Ravina, B. M. (2011). Finances of the publishers of the most highly cited US medical journals. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 99(3), 255–258. http://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.013

Growth Open Access

CAGR OA Revenue 33.8% CAGR OA Journals 76.8%

Source: Newman, E., & Strempel, D. (2014). Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017. Stamford, CT: Simba Information.

Color Coded Modes of Access Conventional Journals (AKA Subscriptions)-Toll access, copyrights often

transferred Gold Open Access-barrier free access and permissions delivered via

journals PLOS Biomedical Green Open Access-barrier free access and permissions delivered via

institutional, personal or subject repositories/archives Example: Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository or George Washington University Health Sciences Research Commons Nursing

Hybrid Open Access-Subscription is the default, but barrier free access for articles authored by paying article processing charge (APC) Example: Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jrnlallbooks/sub/nursinghealth/a

Public Access-barrier free access without permissions (typically for funder mandates, via journal or repository/archive Example: PubMed Central

Others such at Platinum or Delayed…

Hindawi membership Scholarship Open Access Reserve (SOAR) Fund Adopted 2015

Falvey Library accepting applications from full time faculty to cover article processing charges ups to $2000 to publish in “gold” open access journal. Must be accepted for publication. Must exhaust alternative sources of funding. Library Resource Council journal vetting process.

Application: http://library.villanova.edu/about/projects/open/ http://blog.library.villanova.edu/news/2015/10/21/open-access-week/

Quality Indicators and Tools

Is the journal listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ?

Is the journal archived? LOCKSS Is the journal a member of a “best practices” publishing group?

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association International Academy of Nursing Editors Nurse Author & Editor International Associations of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publish

ers

Quality Indicators and Tools

Can you verify that the journal is indexed by appropriate databases such as CINHAL or PubMed or journals referenced in NCBI databases? (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals

Does the journal have an impact factor? Verify it! Incites Journal Citation Report How does the journal compare to known quality journals in SCImago Journal Rank or H Index?

Are the authors guidelines clear? Is there transparency with regard to article processing charges, ethics statements regarding conflicts of interest & data availability?

The Duck Song, John Flynn

If  it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duckAnd there's duck-do on your pick-up truckBuddy you can bet your bottom buckIt ain't no armadillo

Warning Signs

Inclusion on Beall’s List http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Solicitation/Spam Short publication history Publication of poor quality papers Editorial board composition credentials weak or not verifiable Unverifiable metrics, connection to societies Content not easily discoverable on appropriate platforms (google

scholar, PubMed)

Open Access Nursing Journals: Identification Tools

Repository Deposit/Archiving Aids

http://library.villanova.edu/research/topic-guides/author-rights/

Author Addendum facilitating retention of copyrighthttp://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum

Directory of scholarly journals with quick and easy access to archiving policieshttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

U.S. Funders Regulations Permitting ACP

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/HTML5/section_7/7.9_allowability_of_costs_activities.htm

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/manuals/gpm05_131/gpm6.jsp

Additional References

Alpi, K., Cross, W., & Davis, H. (2013). Support When It Counts: Library Roles in Public Access to Federally Funded Research. Presented at the Charleston Library Conference. Retrieved from http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=charleston

Bonhannon, J. (2013). Who’s afraid of peer review? Science, 342(6154), 60–65. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.342.6154.60 Clobridge, A. (2015). Tracking Progress With and Impact of Open Access and Open Data. Online Searcher, 39(5), 68–70 3p. Crawford, W. (2002). Free electronic refereed journals: getting past the arc of enthusiasm. Learned Publishing, 15(2), 117–123.

http://doi.org/10.1087/09531510252848881 David Matthews. (2015, October 10). Open access papers “more likely to be cited on Twitter” | Times Higher Education [blog].

Retrieved October 23, 2015, from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-papers-more-likely-be-cited-twitter Dorsey, E. R., George, B. P., Dayoub, E. J., & Ravina, B. M. (2011). Finances of the publishers of the most highly cited US medical

journals. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 99(3), 255–258. http://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.013 Fulton, Janet S. (2015). Publish and Perish?: Clinical Nurse Specialist, 29(6), 303–304. http://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000167 Laakso, M., Welling, P., Bukvova, H., Nyman, L., Björk, B.-C., & Hedlund, T. (2011). The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing

from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20961. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020961 Newman, E., & Strempel, D. (2014). Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017. Stamford, CT: Simba Information. Shen, C., & Björk, B.-C. (2015). “Predatory” open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC

Medicine, 13(1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2 Suber, P. (2012) Open Access. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access West, J., Bergstrom, T., & Bergstrom, C. (2014). Cost effectiveness of open acces publications. Economic Inquiry, 52(4), 1315–1321.

http://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12117 Zuckerman, E. (2014, February 26). Non-profit vs. for-profit open-access journals: what’s the diff? Retrieved from

https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/non-profit-vs-gor-profit-open-access-journals-whats-the-diff/