LibGuides: Public Health: Discussion 9/13/2023

Cost to publish OA in Nature (journal)

$11690

What's going on in publishing? Where to publish?

Not talking about traditional page charges.

Also, try Libkey.io/ with DOI or PubMed number.

Changes in publishing. Who's in charge? Where's all this going?

Publisher perspectives: being forced to move toward OA, new revenue sources (intelligence about research and you, workflow products, possible AI-LLM); fear of illegal and noncompliant access. Traditional publishers are publishing fewer articles, even if you include Open Access.

Library perspective. We work with big and small vendors and other players. We have a fairly big consortium that negotiates many of our bigger "packages." The Carolina Consortium includes almost all UNC and South Carolina state schools and many privates and community colleges. Mostly not Chapel Hill and Duke. The consortium negotiates "deals," considering the members range of interests. We can opt in for any deal or opt out and possibly negotiate on our own. (We have several other consortiums or partneships also.)

My concern -- AppState authors cannot find free and affordable journals to publish in. But I don't think we're there yet. (Jeff's question.)

What's in place now:
Wiley and Cambridge. (ACS, Sage discount, small PH Nutrition journal)
Wiley licenses can include Hindawi, which Wiley acquired a year or so ago. This opens up a whole other discussion.
These both include "gold" and "hybrid" OA journals.
In the works, starting in January 2024, probably Springer (Nature). Will be only for "hybrid" journals.
Just starting to talk -- Elsevier for 2025. Possibly change Wiley.
What about LWW, Sage, T&F, and all the smaller publishers? HUman Kinetics
Possible OA funds? NO. Nothing right now.

Look at specific publishers and journals

Frontiers -- gold 100%
Springer Nature -- Scientific Reports is gold. Hybrid
2 single journals from associations -- gold
Optical Society of America -- gold and hybrid
Human Kinetics -- hybrid, (low cost subs)
Taylor & Francis -- hybrid
LWW (ACSM's, for example) -- hybrid

University- or association-sponsored journals -- 100% subsidized. example: NATA
APS -- hybrid

What's going on in publishing? Where not to publish?

Where to publish? Where not to publish?

Check the journal in Web of Science, SCImago (uses Scopus), PubMed/MEDLINE, Cabell's. Is it at least findable in Google Scholar? If I detect a hint of anything substandard, I'll Google [journal name] predatory (and not believe everything).

Journal of Environmental and Public Health (Hindawi, now Wiley's)

No longer accepting submissions.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (Frontiers)

Recent department research articles

Web of Science -- current Public Health and Exercise Science authors
excludes some journals, including those that were dropped recently
Dimensions -- Sport Science and Public Health
Includes some articles that do not present research, such as editorials..
Dimensions includes filters for the Norwegian and Australian approved journal lists. See bottom left.
Lens -- current Public Health and Exercise Science faculty

Google Scholar is the most comprehensive.

Also see

See library guides on Scholarly Communications and on PREPARE workshop 2018.

Remember our repository, NC DOCKS.

Any interest in preprint archives, such as SportRxiv?

Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities This link opens in a new window
Cabell's Directories help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals.
In Cabell's, you'll find current contact information, publication guidelines, type of review, number of external reviews, acceptance rate, and submission process.

Appalachian State offers access to the following:

Business (Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing)
Education (Educational Curriculum & Methods, Educational Psychology & Administration, Educational Technology & Library Science)
Psychology (Psychology & Psychiatry)
Computer Science (Computer Science - Business Information Systems)
Health (Health Administration, Nursing)

More details about current deals that include Open Access licenses

Wiley

We have a Read and Publish deal with Wiley. Which means we have permanent rights to read all their journals and we get zero-cost Open Access licenses for articles that our authors publish.

But, there is a complication that I don't want to fully explain here. But here is a start. Our North Carolina/South Carolina consortium, that does not include UNC and Duke, has 735 zero-cost Open Access licenses for 2023. We're on trend to use them all before the end of the year. (Then we'll restart with >735 in 2024.) This especially concerns me for journals where you have to publish Open Access, such as (now) European Journal of Sport Science and Cell Proliferation. I'm not sure what will really happen at year's end. The APCs might get negotiated away, but I cannot count on that.

Here are Wiley's journals, but these pages are kind of hard to use. This might be better, though not comprehensive, a list of those you 5 published in. And here's a list for the department, for the last 10 years. HIndawi journals are included in this.

We continue this deal with Wiley through 2024. You do have to be the corresponding author, and it has to be a research article or review of research (not book/software review).

Cambridge

We also have the same deal with Cambridge journals, though I don't think anyone from PHES has published with them. I don't see anything obvious for y'all.

Sage

And we have just a ~~disappointing~~ 10% discount with Sage journals.. Here's their list for Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. (And Public Health.) PHES authors.

Other publishers

________ has offered us something like this for 2024. This could still fall through, but we're probably close. We've started taking with other publishers also.

Who else should we talk to?

Library Guides

Public Health: Discussion 9/13/2023

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