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

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):

 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

The opening of the #NOSF2025 is what I'm here for in conferences nowadays - warnings against reliance on big tech and highlighting that #DiamondOA is the way forward instead of filling the pockets of publishers that charge wild prices for #GoldOA by Casper Albers.

(I'm attending online - there is a livestream available here: https://opensciencefestival.nl/news/watch-the-livestream-of-the-plenary-sessions-on-24-october)

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