This document discusses open access journals in nursing. It provides pros and cons for publishing in open access journals from the perspective of authors. It outlines different models for open access journals, including for-profit vs non-profit organizations and how they generate revenue. It also discusses tools for evaluating the quality of open access journals and identifying predatory publishers. Overall, the document provides an overview of open access publishing options and considerations for nursing researchers.

1. pen Access
Journals in Nursing
LINDA HAUCK & BARBARA QUINTILIANO,
FALVEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
NOVEMBER 10 & 12, 2015

2. Would you or wouldn’t you publish your
research in this open access journal?

3. Open Access is not for me
 Perception of tenure and promotion committee members
 Stop those annoying spam emails about publishing, editing and reviewing!
 Potential loss of reputation…Bohannon sting
 Fear & loathing of “Predatory Publishers”
 Potential loss of copyright
 Are they really peer reviewed?
 Way too $expensive$ article processing charges

4. Open Access is the way to go
 Perception of tenure and promotion committee members
 Perceptions of my research peers
 Potentially greater impact among scholars
 Potentially wider impact outside discipline and academia
 Quicker publication cycle
 Social good gained by making scholarship widely available
 Contributing to suppressing overall journal costs

5. The What and Why of Open Access
“Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions.”
Source: Suber, P. (2012) Open Access. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-
access
“Electronic publication now enables preparation, distribution, access, and archiving of articles at a
fraction of the cost of the comparable print publications of earlier times. However, the
subscription costs to university libraries of many major journals do not reflect these reduced
costs…
The federal government makes massive investments in researchers, staff, and facilities to advance
knowledge; publishers do not. Universities similarly make big investments in research. University
faculty generally are the authors, editors, and reviewers of the articles coming out of that
research. To get their articles published, faculty usually must transfer significant copyrights to the
publishers. Then the publishers sell back to the universities the very content they as a group
produced, and at steadily higher subscription prices. The system is fundamentally broken.
Source: http://www.aplu.org/news-and-media/News/aplu-statement-on-resignation-of-linguas-
editors--editorial-board-members-in-protest-of-elseviers-pricing-policies

6. The Journal Context: Revenue Models
Open Access-Author or Funder Pays
Ads
Funder &
Institution
Subsidies
Article
Processing
Charges
Subscription- Reader Pays
Ads
Submission
Fees
Site Licenses
Subscriptions

7. The Journal Context: Organization Models
For Profit
 Springer Publishing: Private Company
Open Access publisher of BioMed
Central and many subscription journals.
 Hindawi: private, foreign, commercial,
open access
 Elsevier foreign, public company,
publishes subscription, hybrid and gold
open access (Asian Nursing Research),
2008 Margin 33.4%
 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, subsidiary
of Wolters Kluwer (foreign, public)
publishes subscription, many for
societies, 2008 Margin 12.5%.
Non-Profit
 PLOS Medicine: California Non-Profit,
public financials, all open access
journals., 2008 Margin -14.7%
 American Medical Association: society,
public financials, mostly subscription
models, 2008 Margin 55%
Source Margins: Dorsey, E. R., George, B. P., Dayoub, E. J.,
& Ravina, B. M. (2011). Finances of the publishers of the
most highly cited US medical journals. Journal of the
Medical Library Association : JMLA, 99(3), 255–258.
http://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.013

8. Growth Open Access
CAGR OA Revenue 33.8% CAGR OA Journals 76.8%
Source: Newman, E., & Strempel, D. (2014). Open Access Journal Publishing
2014-2017. Stamford, CT: Simba Information.

9. Color Coded Modes of Access
 Conventional Journals (AKA Subscriptions)-Toll access, copyrights often transferred
 Gold Open Access-barrier free access and permissions delivered via journals PLOS
Biomedical
 Green Open Access-barrier free access and permissions delivered via institutional,
personal or subject repositories/archives Example: Virginia Henderson Global
Nursing e-Repository or George Washington University Health Sciences Research
Commons Nursing
 Hybrid Open Access-Subscription is the default, but barrier free access for articles
authored by paying article processing charge (APC) Example: Elsevier
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jrnlallbooks/sub/nursinghealth/a
 Public Access-barrier free access without permissions (typically for funder
mandates, via journal or repository/archive Example: PubMed Central
 Others such at Platinum or Delayed…

10.  Hindawi membership
 Scholarship Open Access Reserve (SOAR) Fund Adopted 2015
 Falvey Library accepting applications from full time faculty to cover article
processing charges ups to $2000 to publish in “gold” open access journal.
Must be accepted for publication. Must exhaust alternative sources of funding.
Library Resource Council journal vetting process.
 Application: http://library.villanova.edu/about/projects/open/
 http://blog.library.villanova.edu/news/2015/10/21/open-access-week/

11. Quality Indicators and Tools
 Is the journal listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ?
 Is the journal archived? LOCKSS
 Is the journal a member of a “best practices” publishing group?
 Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
 International Academy of Nursing Editors Nurse Author & Editor
 International Associations of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers

12. Quality Indicators and Tools
 Can you verify that the journal is indexed by appropriate databases such as
CINHAL or PubMed or journals referenced in NCBI databases?
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
 Does the journal have an impact factor? Verify it! Incites Journal Citation
Report How does the journal compare to known quality journals in
SCImago Journal Rank or H Index?
 Are the authors guidelines clear? Is there transparency with regard to
article processing charges, ethics statements regarding conflicts of interest
& data availability?

13. The Duck Song, John Flynn
If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck
And there's duck-do on your pick-up truck
Buddy you can bet your bottom buck
It ain't no armadillo

14. Warning Signs
 Inclusion on Beall’s List http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
 Solicitation/Spam
 Short publication history
 Publication of poor quality papers
 Editorial board composition credentials weak or not verifiable
 Unverifiable metrics, connection to societies
 Content not easily discoverable on appropriate platforms (google scholar,
PubMed)

15. Open Access Nursing Journals:
Identification Tools

16. Repository Deposit/Archiving Aids
http://library.villanova.edu/research/topic-guides/author-rights/
Author Addendum facilitating retention
of copyright
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum
Directory of scholarly journals with
quick and easy access to archiving policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

17. U.S. Funders Regulations Permitting ACP
 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps/HTML5/section_7/7.9_allowabili
ty_of_costs_activities.htm
 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/manuals/gpm05_131/gpm6.jsp

18. Additional References
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Charleston Library Conference. Retrieved from http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=charleston
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http://doi.org/10.1087/09531510252848881
 David Matthews. (2015, October 10). Open access papers “more likely to be cited on Twitter” | Times Higher Education [blog]. Retrieved October 23,
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 Dorsey, E. R., George, B. P., Dayoub, E. J., & Ravina, B. M. (2011). Finances of the publishers of the most highly cited US medical journals. Journal of the
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 Newman, E., & Strempel, D. (2014). Open Access Journal Publishing 2014-2017. Stamford, CT: Simba Information.
 Shen, C., & Björk, B.-C. (2015). “Predatory” open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC Medicine, 13(1).
http://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2
 Suber, P. (2012) Open Access. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
 West, J., Bergstrom, T., & Bergstrom, C. (2014). Cost effectiveness of open acces publications. Economic Inquiry, 52(4), 1315–1321.
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 Zuckerman, E. (2014, February 26). Non-profit vs. for-profit open-access journals: what’s the diff? Retrieved from
https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/non-profit-vs-gor-profit-open-access-journals-whats-the-diff/