{"id":2582,"date":"2021-06-11T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:25:37","slug":"page-charges-and-oa-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2021\/06\/11\/page-charges-and-oa-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Page charges and OA policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of my time in the past 12 months has been committed to preparing for compliance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coalition-s.org\">Coalition S<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.org\/grant-funding\/guidance\/open-access-guidance\/open-access-policy\">Wellcome open access<\/a> policies. Because we have core funding from Wellcome this means that all research papers submitted on or after 1 Jan 2021 must comply with their new OA policy.<\/p>\n<p>So I have been buried in transformative deals, transformative journals and the Rights Retention Strategy, trying to ensure that these will work to make our research papers open and compliant with Plan S.<\/p>\n<p>This work continues. The new policy only affects papers submitted on or after 1 Jan 2021 so we are just seeing more papers coming through for publication that need to comply with the new policy. And we are seeing a few cases where the publishers policies and practices conflict with what Plan S stipulates. \u00a0We are now at the stage when \u2019The shit hits the Plan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The key aspects, or high mountains, of Plan S requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CC BY licence<\/li>\n<li>Immediate OA<\/li>\n<li>No hybrid APCs (except for Transformative Journals or Transformative Agreements)<\/li>\n<li>Rights Retention Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But down in the foothills are some other issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No page charges<\/li>\n<li>No colour charges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week we\u2019ve had a couple of examples where publishers have asked us to pay page charges. \u00a0I won\u2019t name the journals as we are still working through the issues with them and I hope we may reach a positive result in at least one case. But these are examples of the uncertainties and unexpected quirks of publishing that give me sleepless nights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/files\/2021\/06\/pagchrg-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2586 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/files\/2021\/06\/pagchrg-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/franknorman\/status\/1403234661774643203\">My Tweet on the topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Report 1<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a subscription journal from a major publisher with whom we have a read and publish deal. The article appeared in the publisher dashboard at the end of April and was published as OA on the website on 29 April. Sadly it is not yet in PubMedCentral, so that\u2019s something else we need to chase.<\/p>\n<p>On 9 June the publisher emailed the author to say that\u00a0on acceptance of an article the\u00a0authors are liable for page charges &#8211; $140 for each typeset page up to 10 pages and $200 for each page thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>I recall that the publisher a few years back ditched all their page and colour charges\u00a0 &#8211; if you chose the paid OA route for your article then there were no extra charges, so this email is surprising. It might be an error &#8211; perhaps a standard process was invoked that shouldn&#8217;t have been in this case. It doesn\u2019t seem to be a society journal, so I can\u2019t see a reason why this title should be different from the publishers\u2019 other titles. This title is listed in the agreement we have with the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>We have queried this with the publisher and are waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case Report 2<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a subscription journal from a moderate-sized US learned society publisher &#8211; they have nearly 20 journals altogether. They do not offer a read and publish deal and have not chosen to become a\u00a0transformative journal. I had read that they\u00a0would accept the Rights\u00a0Retention Strategy language, and would allow immediate CC BY deposit of the author manuscript into PubMedCentral.<\/p>\n<p>Our author made a mistake in her dealing with the publisher and selected the paid OA option before telling us about the paper. The paper was published OA on 9\u00a0June. \u00a0 We then explained to our author that we cannot pay an APC as this is a hybrid journal and our funders do not permit it. We contacted the publisher and they agreed to cancel the paid OA status for the article. In the next breath they explained that we were now liable for page charges &#8211; these are waived when an APC is paid. \u00a0And it turns out that the page charges due are quite high. The APC would have been $2500; the page charges will be $1800.<\/p>\n<p>So, we can break the\u00a0\u2019no hybrid APCs\u2019 rule and make the version of\u00a0record immediately OA, or we can pay slightly less to break the\u00a0\u2019no page charges\u2019 rule and make the author accepted manuscript OA. \u00a0Fortunately the Rights Retention Strategy declaration is included in the article.<\/p>\n<p>We have\u00a0responded to the publisher explaining that we cannot pay page charges, and emphasising that if they offered a read and publish deal, or became a transformative journal, that\u00a0would\u00a0be remove the problem. Otherwise we will need a page charge waiver. We\u2019re waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear option<\/strong><br \/>\nAn apparently simple next step would be to cancel publication of both papers. I call this the nuclear option. I do not think it is a realistic option.<\/p>\n<p>As a librarian I try to avoid dictating to\u00a0researchers where they can publish, though I\u00a0strongly advise them to avoid one or two known problematic journals.<\/p>\n<p>If an article has\u00a0already\u00a0been published in a journal, I am not prepared to say to an author that they should withdraw the article and submit it elsewhere. \u00a0I\u2019m not even sure that would be ethical or possible.<\/p>\n<p>All my fingers and toes are crossed in the hope that we can reach agreement with both publishers in a way that complies with our OA policies. Otherwise I will have to\u00a0 &#8216;strongly advise&#8217; that our authors do not publish in these journals for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of my time in the past 12 months has been committed to preparing for compliance with the Coalition S \/ Wellcome open access policies. 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