https://www.journals.elsevier.com/materials-and-design/announcements/materials-design-open-access-2019
Material and Design (Elsevier) has been converted into a mandatory open access journal with an article process fee of USD2000 applicable to all submissions from 1st Nov 2018 on wards. It shocked me a lot to read the notification mail yesterday. The academic research publication is a trillion-dollar business. No journal pays authors to obtain their copy rights before entering into subscription business. Elsevier and other leading publishers started a campaign of making an article open access optionally in all established journals back 2010 onwards by paying open access fee and promoted open access journals. In spite of constantly hiking subscription fees annually, it seems they are not satisfied with the billion-dollar turnover. They started several open access journals recently including Heliyon, Results in Physics etc. Perhaps, they are bit afraid of pirate websites such as Sci-Hub and recent legal fight with Academia.edu and ResearchGate to pull down full text articles. It appears that they have hatched a new plot to convert established journals into mandatory open access journals to secure their income. Many authors from developed countries with surplus funds may afford the mandatory open access fee and like to retain publication in reputed journals. This may not be possible for authors (including myself) from developing and under developed countries. What if they convert all established journals one by one including Materials Characterization, Materials Science and Engineering A, Journal of Alloys and Compounds etc. as open access journals?
Yes Nov'2018 onward any articles submitted to this journal shall be charged with APC. Any mandatory charging of APC shall not go well with the academic and research excellence.
Yes Sir, even good contributions could not be published. This is really a set back for researchers especially, young scientists who work without funding.
Charging rather high APCs seem to be the way in which Open Access publishing is moving.
The biggest publisher of Open Access journals, MDPI, will charge a minimum APC of 1000 CHF (Swiss francs) 1,000 on every journal from 1 July 2019.
Payment of APCs will be difficult for early career researchers who may not have access to research funding to pay APCs.
I think this step is in the wrong direction academically. This change is a sign of trade transformation in the journal's policy.
To Arshad, Ebenezer and Mohsin:
With respect, contrary to your comments about the quality of Open Access journals, there are many such journals that have very high impact factors.
I am sure you are aware of the Nature and Science journals.
Might you have any idea how much the Springer Nature journals (all of them !) and the Science journals (yes, all of them !) charge in publication fees?
Dear Issac,
An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access in either an open access journal or hybrid journal. An article processing charge does not guarantee that the author retains copyright to the work, or that it will be made available under a license. Now a day, it is normal trend the APC in open access are really moving up. Different academic publishers have widely varying levels of fees, from under $100 to over $3000. Article processing charges shift the burden of payment from readers to authors (or their funders), which creates a new set of concerns. One concern is that if a publisher makes a profit from accepting papers, it has an incentive to accept anything submitted, rather than selecting and rejecting articles based on quality. This could be remedied, however, by charging for the peer-review rather than acceptance. Another concern is the redirection of money by major funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Welcome Trust from the direct support of research to the support of open access publication. Research institutions could cover the cost of open access by converting to an open access journal cost-recovery model, with the institutions' annual tool access subscription savings being available to cover annual open access publication costs.
Many researchers struggle with the decision of whether to do so in an OA journal versus a traditional (and perhaps more well-established) journal. The four main factors to consider when making this decision are visibility, cost, prestige, and speed. In modern society, research is disseminated through many venues, including social media sites, blogs, Twitter, and open access (OA) scholarly journals that are freely available to anyone with Internet access. As opposed to traditional journals, which often charge readers hefty fees to access journal content, OA journals provide content for free on the web and charge researchers to publish their findings.
Factors to consider when deciding between an open access or traditional journal:
1. Visibility
2. cost
3. prestige
4. speed
There are other aspects to consider when deciding the OA or traditional journal.
It may not be necessary to choose between “strictly OA” and “strictly traditional” journals, as publishing in a hybrid OA journal with a high IF may provide the best of both worlds: the high visibility of an OA journal combined with the prestige of a well-known traditional journal.
Hope it work out for you.
Ashish
Dear Isaac Dinaharan ,
Indeed the point you raise is an important drawback of the open access publishing model. However two things should be considered:
-First of all most journals (and/or publisher behind it) have waiver policies. Meaning that under certain circumstances one can obtain a discount or can even publish for free.
-Second there are free of charge open access journals.
Some time ago I did some searching for this (see enclosed files) at the publishers Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and MDPI. There are also numerous stand-alone journals that publish according to the open access model without asking a fee/APC. Like:
Agricultural and Food Science (AFSci) (DOAJ, Scopus (since 2004), SCIE)
https://journal.fi/afs
AFSci has no publication fee.
Croatica Chemica Acta (Scopus, SCIE, Impact factor 0.731 (2018))
http://pubweb.carnet.hr/ccacaa/
Croatica Chemica Acta is an open access journal. Croatica Chemica Acta does not charge neither article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
Grasas y Aceites (Scopus, SCIE, Impact factor 0.891 (2018))
http://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/index
Grasas y Aceites provides immediate, full text access to all its contents of this online edition. There are no processing charges.
Orbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry (Orbital: Electron. J. Chem.) (DOAJ, Scopus (since 2017), ESCI)
http://www.orbital.ufms.br/index.php/Chemistry
This journal charges the following author fees: 0.00 (BRL)
TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY (Turk. J. Chem.) (Impact factor 1.000 (2018))
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/chem/index.htm
TÜBİTAK academic journals are open access journals — all the manuscripts published in these journals are freely available online for anyone. There are no subscription or submission charges.
Warning: Be aware that things can change. For those journals without impact factor you often see that soon after that one is obtained an APC is introduced.
Hope this helps those who want to publish in an open access journal but lack the necessary funding.
Best regards.
Dear Rob Keller,
I am agree with you in a totality. Yes off-course your two points are valid and everyone is talking about the same.
-First of all most journals (and/or publisher behind it) have waiver policies. Meaning that under certain circumstances one can obtain a discount or can even publish for free.
-Second there are free of charge open access journals.
What I have mentioned in my post.... An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors to make a work available open access in either an open access journal or hybrid journal. Many researchers struggle with the decision of whether to do so in an OA journal versus a traditional (and perhaps more well-established) journal.
you have mentioned all journal list related with chemistry. Is there any list yo have for mechanical engineering journal does not charge neither article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges?
If there kindly back with list to us ASAP.
Ashish
Dear Ashish Thakur ,
The enclosed lists in my previous reply are not limited to the field of chemistry, it are basically ALL fields for which there are free of charge open access journals available at these particular publishers I checked (there are many others as you know). Unfortunately there are not that many focused on mechanical engineering. Still a number might be potentially interesting (not my expertise but as far as I can judge):
Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (DOAJ, SCImago, Scopus (since 2014)). The scope of JESTECH includes a wide spectrum of subjects including …Mechanical and Civil Engineering (Automotive Technologies; Biomechanics; Construction Materials; Design and Manufacturing; Dynamics and Control; Energy Generation, Utilization, Conversion, and Storage; Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics; Heat and Mass Transfer; Micro-Nano Sciences; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Technologies; Robotics and Mechatronics; Solid Mechanics and Structure; Thermal Sciences)…
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering-science-and-technology-an-international-journal/
This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where Karabuk University pays the OA fee. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee.
Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences (JKSUES) (DOAJ, Scopus, SCIamgo). Is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly. It is hosted and published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. JKSUES is devoted to a wide range of sub-fields in the Engineering Sciences and JKSUES welcome articles of interdisciplinary nature. Areas covered by JKSUES: …Mechanical Engineering such as Micro structural Analysis, Heat Treatment, Hardness and Mechanical Tests, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Control, Mechanical Vibration, air conditioning and its application and other related areas…
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-king-saud-university-engineering-sciences/
These journals are peer reviewed, subsidized open access journals where King Saud University pays the OA fee. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee.
Journal of Industrial Engineering International. Journal of Industrial Engineering International is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of industrial engineering. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for engineers and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of industrial engineering.
https://www.springer.com/journal/40092
It is fully supported by the Islamic Azad University, who provide funds to cover all costs of publication, including the Article Processing Charges (APC’s) for all authors.
International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. The International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering (IJEEE) is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal covering all areas of energy and environment related fields that apply to the science and engineering communities. …The following areas represent some of the potential fields in which important contributions in environmental engineering are sought: design and development of engineering methods …
https://www.springer.com/journal/40095
Article-processing charges (APCs) for all authors are covered by Islamic Azad University (IAU).
Possibly also interesting:
CivilEng (ISSN 0002-0002) is an international, open access and peer-reviewed journal which publishes research findings and developments in civil engineering.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/civileng/about
At present, the APC for CivilEng is fully subsidized by MDPI, meaning there is no charge to authors or their institutions.
Bulletin of the National Research Centre (CAB Abstracts, DOAJ). Bulletin of the National Research Centre is a peer-reviewed, open access, multidisciplinary journal, designed for the wide dissemination of practical research in different scientific fields to a worldwide audience. The journal is dedicated to advances in science and the practice of different fields of science, through the rapid publication of high quality research.
https://bnrc.springeropen.com/about
The Bulletin of the National Research Centre is supported through an agreement between Springer Nature and the Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research (Government of Egypt), so author-payable article-processing charges do not apply.
Hope this is of any use to you.
Best regards.
Dear Rob,
Thank you very much. I shall go through all of the prescribed journal.
Ashish
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