Successful journal flipping: TIB supports new journal Quantitative Science Studies – TIB-Blog

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Summary:

The new year begins with good news: The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and its partners announce the founding of a new scientometric open access journal. The journal will be managed by the former board members of the renowned Journal of Informetrics, who have collectively resigned from this Elsevier journal and who would rather continue their work in an open access context after a journal flipping. TIB supports this process by taking on a significant share of the transformation costs....

Under the name Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the journal complies with the Fair Open Access Principles: transparent academic control, no copyright transfer, use of an open access license for all articles, no APC payment obligation for authors, transparent and low publishing costs. The journal will be owned by the Society and published by MIT Press.

In a joint press release of the new partners, the resigning editors state three main criteria they wanted to have implemented for their journal:

  1. scientific journals should belong to the scientific community and not be owned by commercial publishing houses
  2. journals should be open access and should comply with fair principles
  3. publishers should make citation data freely available

Elsevier did not want to allow these conditions, which lead to the resignation of all editors.

 

The conditions are comprehensible: The academic ownership increases the chance that profit interests do not dominate the management of the magazine. The Fair Open Access principles are intended to help curb harmful open access models. In particular, the expensive APC (Article Processing Charges) model means that publishing in open access journals is not open to all. In addition, institutions and authors with a high publication output are being punished. The question of open citation data is particularly sensitive in a field of research in which the relations between publications can be very important. In the future, the publisher will automatically make this information available (see also Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)) so that it will become part of the huge corpus of free citation data...."

Link:

https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2019/01/14/support-journal-flipping-qss/

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Date tagged:

01/14/2019, 09:15

Date published:

01/14/2019, 04:15