Proposed ranking of journals in terms of compliance with the aims of open and fair science
Best option: Fair open access (see https://www.fairopenaccess.org/ )
See https://www.psychopen.eu/browse-publications/ for other fair open access journals that are less relevant for the type of research conducted in the LipLab.
2nd best: Society owned journals that allow for green open access with no embargo for archiving in institutional repository and other repositories:
- All APA and affiliated journals (e.g., JEP:G, JEP:LMC, JPSP, Motivation Science, Emotion, Behavior Analysis, …;
- Authors' post-print on author's web-site, employers server, academic social networks, edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley or institutional repository, after acceptance;
- Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged;
- Must link to publisher version with DOI;
- Set statement must accompany deposit;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- APA will submit NIH author articles to PubMed Central, after author completion of form.
3d best: Society owned journals that allow for green open access with no embargo for archiving in institutional repository but that have an embargo for other repositories like ResearchGate:
- All APS journals (e.g., Psychological Science, Perspectives On Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, … ;
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- Author's post-print on author's personal website, departmental website or institutional repository immediately;
- Author's post-print on other repositories including PubMed Central after 12 months embargo;
- Must link to publisher version;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
- All SPSP journals (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Review, SPPS):
- Authors retain copyright (but I think this is of the pre-print only);
- Author's post-print on author's personal website, departmental website, institutional website or institutional repository;
- On other repositories including PubMed Central after 12 months embargo;
- Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- Post-print version with changes from referees comments can be used; "as published" final version with layout and copy-editing changes cannot be archived but can be used on secure institutional intranet;
- Must link to publisher version with DOI.
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Owned by the Experimental Psychology Society (UK).
- Authors retain copyright (but I think this is just copyright of the pre-print), Pre- print on any website;
- Author's post-print on author's personal website, departmental website, institutional website or institutional repository;
- On other repositories including PubMed Central after 12 months embargo;
- Publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- Post-print version with changes from referees comments can be used; "as published" final version with layout and copy-editing changes cannot be archived but can be used on secure institutional intranet;
- Must link to publisher version with DOI;
4th best: Society owned journals that do seem to have an embargo for archiving on an institutional repository
- PNAS: Owned by National Academy of
- Authors retain copyright (pre- and post-print?);
- Authors post-print after media embargo has expired;
- Publisher's version/PDF may be used; Publisher's version/PDF may be used on author's personal website immediately;
- Authors may have deposit in funding body's archive or funding body's designated repository for public release 6 months after publication;
- All PNAS-formatted versions are deposited in PubMed Central for release after 6 months, regardless of funding.
- All Psychonomic Society journals (PB&R, M&C, …)
- Society owns these journals;
- Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately;
- Author's post-print on any open access repository after 12 months after publication;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- Published source must be acknowledged;
- Must link to publisher version;
- Set phrase to accompany link to published version (see policy).
- All ABAI journals
- Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately;
- Author's post-print on any open access repository after 12 months after publication;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- Published source must be acknowledged;
- Must link to publisher version;
- Set phrase to accompany link to published version (see policy).
Avoid: Privately owned journals with an embargo for archiving in institutional and other repositories
- All Elsevier journals (e.g., Acta Psychologica, Biological Psychology, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Consciousness & Cognition, PAID, JBTEP, Learning & Motivation, NBR, Behavioural Processes, ….;
- Privately owned;
- Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC;
- Author's post- print on author's personal website immediately;
- Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of between 12 months and 48 months;
- Permitted deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental policy or mandate, may be required to comply with embargo periods of 12 months to 48 months;
- Author's post-print may be used to update arXiv and RepEC;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used;
- Must link to publisher version with DOI;
- Author's post-print must be released with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Published by Elsevier but linked to SESP (Elsevier supports SESP financially);
- Same as other Elsevier journals, given the support for SESP, this journal scores a bit better than the rest in this category.
- Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
- Published by Elsevier but linked to ACBS (I guess Elsevier supports ACBS financially);
- Same as other Elsevier journals, given the support for ACBS, this journal scores a bit better than the rest in this category.
- Social Cognition:
- Linked to a society (ISCON) but privately owned journal (Guilford) that allows self-archiving of post-prints only after seeking permission of the publisher and an embargo period of 6 months (if I understand correctly; I could not find any relevant info about this on the Guilford or Social Cognition webpages).
- Cognition & Emotion
- Privately owned (Taylor & Francis): On author's personal website or departmental website immediately (not clear whether this refers to pre-print or post-print);
- On institutional repository, subject-based repository or academic social network (Mendeley, ResearchGate or Academia.edu) after 12 months embargo;
- Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used.
- Experimental Psychology: linked to a society (German society for experimental psychology) but privately owned (Hogrefe) and 12 month embargo on all post-print
- Social Psychology: privately owned and 12 month embargo on all post-print publishing
- Frontiers in Psychology: Open access but privately owned and expensive (2950 USD)
- Nature Human Behavior: privately owned and 6 month embargo on all post-print publishing