Radioprotection passe en « open access » pour 2024 | Radioprotection

"We are pleased to announce that Radioprotection will officially move to open access (OA) in 2024, with no publication fees for authors. All articles from the beginning of 2024 will be freely accessible to all readers and the general public. Starting from April 26th, newly accepted articles will be published in OA, under a CC-BY 4.0 license, allowing everyone to share and reuse the content. The copyright of these articles is retained by the authors.

To move to OA, we have adopted the "Subscribe to Open" model with EDP Sciences, the publisher of Radioprotection. This model assumes that scientific institutions’ libraries will continue to pay a subscription fee (approximately €400 per year in 2024), and that there will be a sufficient number of subscriptions to cover the costs of publication and database distribution. We have secured the necessary funds to move to open access for 2024, but this issue will arise each year. For this model to be sustainable in the long term, it is crucial for more libraries and institutions to subscribe to Radioprotection and renew their subscription every year. Open access publication depends on the renewal of subscriptions each year. We will therefore ask for your support, as well as that of the libraries, for next year to encourage your respective institutions to maintain or take out a subscription to our journal. Your support will be crucial in maintaining OA in the future.

In addition to contributing to the journal’s transition to OA, subscribing institutions benefit from access to articles from 2021 to 2023, which are restricted to subscribers. The accepted manuscripts ahead of publication are also reserved for subscribers. Articles published prior to 2020 are freely accessible to everyone.

Open Access is an economic publication model that has been in place for a long time, beginning with the Berlin Declaration in 2003 on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (Berlin, 2003). The demand for OA to knowledge was further strengthened in 2018 by Plan S from the cOAlition S of national research agencies and funders from twelve European countries (Plan S, 2018). There are currently strong incentives to publish in OA from public policies, both at the European and French levels, and many research institutions are turning this incentive into a requirement through various mechanisms. Currently, about 60% of scientific publications are in OA...."