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Friday, 29 March 2024, 3:09 PM
Site: OpenLearn Create
Course: ORION MOOC for Open Science in the Life Sciences 2.0 (ORION_MOOC_2.0)
Glossary: Glossary: Open Science in the Life Sciences

Briefings in Bioinformatics - OA Policy

A paid open access option is available for this journal. 

Authors can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing); 

Authors can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

Authors cannot archive the publisher's version/PDF

Injury

That's a journal I'm interested in and it's listed as a ROMEO Green Journal.

SHERPA/RoMEO check

Journal of Wildlife Diseases - RoMEO ungraded

IGI Global: is a open access publisher?

Colours of Sheroa/Romeo are ambiguous and not easy for researcher to understand if a publisher has a Open Access policy or not.
For example, the color of IGI Global is Blue, "Can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher's version/PDF" and if we read the "General Conditions" says that "Publisher's version/PDF must be used"...
For a researcher this could be a Open Access publisher but not. They don't allow post-print, or pre print, and we need to pay APC "Article processing charge "...

The terms and definitions are not easy! We need to simplify this "taxonomy"!

Jcom journal

Category White, non archivable 

BioTechniques - OA Policy

Listed in  DOAJ as an open access journal.

Authors can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing);

Authors can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing);

Authors can archive the publisher's version/PDF.

Journal of Immunology

This is a RoMEO GREEN journal. A paid open access option is available.

Predatory Publishing

Predatory publishing generally refers to the systematic for-profit publication of purportedly scholarly content (in journals and articles, monographs, books, or conference proceedings) in a deceptive or fraudulent way and without any regard for quality assurance. (Definition taken from COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics)

Further information

  • Beall's List is a resource that helps you find out whether an OA journal that you plan to publish with is considered questionable or predatory: https://beallslist.net/
  • More detailed information about the practice of predatory publishing and why it harms the reputation of scientists and Open Access Journals can be found in this discussion paper compiled by COPE: https://publicationethics.org/files/cope_dd_a4_pred_publishing_nov19_screenaw.pdf

Activity: Open Access Journal Policies

Metallomics (ISSN: 1756-5901, ESSN: 1756-591X)

Paid OA, pre-print self-archiving allowed, post-print as well but after a 12-mo. embargo


Redox Biology (ISSN: 2213-2317, ESSN: 2213-2317)

OA journal


Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (ISSN: 0162-0134, ESSN: 1873-3344)

Paid OA, pre-print self-archiving allowed, post-print as well but after a 12-48 mo. embargo

Bioinformatics (ISSN: 1367-4803, ESSN: 1460-2059) - OA Policy

A paid open access option is available for this journal.

Author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing).

Author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing).

Author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF