Nous avons donné une présentation de Where To Publish (https://wheretopublish.github.io/) au Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL) hier. La présentation est disponible en français à ce lien: https://pod.inserm.fr/video/2459-grt-integrite-scientifique-where_to_publish/ Merci encore au Groupe de Travail Intégrité Scientifique pour l'invitation à présenter la base de données. Petit à petit on va faire bouger les choses! #openAccess #scientificPublicationSystem #publishOrPerish #AcademicSky

Based on much evidence that many publishers use the pressure to publish open access (OA) as a means to increase the article processing charges (APCs) (see https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/01/22/adoption-of-open-access-is-rising-but-so-too-are-its-costs/ for example) I wanted to verify the assumption that for-profit OA journals are more expensive than for-profit non-OA journals in our where to publish database.
To my own surprise, I must confess that what I observed was the opposite: OA journals have, on average, cheaper APCs than non-OA journals (i.e. hybrid + subscription journals).
I don't have an easy explanation for that, but one possibility is that journals with editors willing to go fully for OA may also be the ones where editors are more motivated to maintain APCs low. Happy to hear more thoughts on that!
And don't hesitate to also play with the data from our database https://wheretopublish.github.io/ APCs are mostly collected from the openAPC database (https://www.openapc.net/) and all our data can be freely downloaded from our website as a .csv file :) #whereToPublish #APC #scientificPublicationSystem

https://www.science.org/content/article/major-china-funder-plans-curtail-spending-pricey-open-access-fees "High-profile, high-fee journals affected include Nature Communications, Cell Reports, and Science Advances." Things are accelerating a bit as it seems #AcademicSky #OpenScience #ScientificPublicationSystem

Based on our WhereToPublish database, we were curious to see if the APCs depend on the publisher type and with relatively no surprise at all, the journals that are for-profit are way above:
For-profit journals = 2635 +/- 37€ (mean +/- sem)
Non-profit & University Press journals = 1996 +/- 63€
Also unsurprisingly, the difference is statistically significant (p<0.001) and the average price is even higher when looking at for-profit journals that are NOT associated with one way or another to a scientific society:
2829 +/- 53€
Notably, non-profit journals are the definitive winners and are even cheaper than university press journals with an average 1792 +/- 90€ of APCs!
This is clearly a call for change but sadly, for-profit journals clearly dominate the market with 71% of the journals in the database being for-profit..
Side note: the APC values are mostly indicative and are mostly based on the openAPC database (www.openapc.net)
To conclude: check our Where To Publish database (https://wheretopublish.github.io/) and don't hesitate to also play with the data which can easily be downloaded from the website!
#OpenAccess #ScientificSky #ScientificPublicationSystem #Science #articleProcessingCharges #AcademicSky #OpenScience

Dear all, I'm happy to present you a side project done with Diego HartaSanchez, Thibault Latrille & Lucas Baudouin regarding the publication landscape in Biology: https://wheretopublish.github.io/
There is a growing consensus in academia that the current scientific publishing system needs to change. Where to Publish? was built as a database of all life-science journals to promote that change by highlighting journals that are open access and whose revenues directly serve Academia. You can use this database both to choose where to publish your next paper based on the publisher type, the APC and the business model of the journal, as well as to select which journals you are ok to review for or to act as an editor for. Change is possible and alternatives exist. Let’s make it happen!
If you would like to contribute, don’t hesitate to write to us at [email protected] or directly via contributing on the database or website.
#ScientificPublicationSystem
#OpenAccess
#OpenScience
#AcademicSky