Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.
Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):
1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability
#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia
Please #boost so I can reach other academics.
Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms. While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.
@nyhan That is such a cool study. I have previously looked at this resource: https://zenodo.org/records/4553103
for diamond access journals in my field, but to no avail.
Context From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organisations undertook a large-scale study on open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. This study was commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding of the OA diamond landscape. Presentation The study undertook a statistical analysis of several bibliographic databases, surveyed 1,619 journals, collected 7,019 free text submissions and other data from 94 questions, and organised three focus groups with 11 journals and 10 interviews with hosting platforms. It collected 163 references in the academic literature, and inventoried 1048 journals not listed in DOAJ. The results of the study are available in the following outputs: Findings Report - DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4558704 Recommendations Report- DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4562790 References Library - DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4562816 Journals Inventory - DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4562828 Dataset - DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4553103 This dataset contains data used by and partly generated by the OA Diamond Journals Study on open access journals that do not charge authors. It contains the data files themselves as well as some readme texts with variable lists. Available files: Survey questionnaire, English version (PDF) Survey data without identifying information and without free texts answers (as these might also include identifying information) (CSV). This includes, for some questions, data from DOAJ for journals present in that database. Readme text with the variable list for the survey data file (TXT) Stratified sample of 500 records from the ROAD database of open access journals downloaded 20201102 (CSV) Readme text with the variable list for the ROAD database sample (TXT) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata downloaded 20200602 (CSV) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata downloaded 20200918 (CSV) Added and Removed change log DOAJ, downloaded 20210121 (CSV) Readme text with variable list for the Added and Removed change log DOAJ (TXT) All data are available for reuse under a CC0 license. Additionally, an online version of the survey results (excluding DOAJ data and excluding free text answers) is available from SurveyMonkey
@ajayiyer if Springer is okay, maybe Hydrobiologia?
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Probably not exactly your field, unfortunately, but for #ecology and #evolution there is the DAFNEE database of #academia friendly journals! Maybe you could build something similar for your field?
elife is interesting and they accept publish a lot of different types of papers
they have an open book review process last i checked, where you can see who the reviewers are, what their comments were, researchers' replies, etc.
@ajayiyer Marine or freshwater? Limnology and Oceanography (journal of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography) does both. https://www.aslo.org/limnology-and-oceanography/
Freshwater Science (journal of Society for Freshwater Science) if just freshwater. https://www.freshwater-science.org/Journal/about-fws/
K. David Hambright Editor in Chief 2018-present Julia Mullarney Deputy Editor 2020-present Steeve Comeau Deputy Editor 2022-present Elisa Shaum Deputy Editor 2022-present Limnology and Oceanography (ISSN 1939-5590) publishes original research articles, reviews, and comments about all aspects of limnology and oceanography. The journal’s unifying theme is the understanding of aquatic systems. Submissions are judged on their originality and intellectual contribution to the fields of limnology and oceanography. Site-specific studies, laboratory […]
Try the Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org The majority do *not* charge APCs. You can filter using different criteria.
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