Open and fair science

Open and fair science

 


Once a manuscript co-authored by (a) lab-member(s) is accepted for publication, the first lab-member in the author list uploads it to a departmental bibliography, along with the DSFS and other relevant information about the publication. These entries are periodically checked by people in the department, and once it is confirmed all information is correct, the publication is added to the university’s academic bibliography. New publications by the lab are also shared on Twitter and on our website.


Our values regarding open and fair science also influence where lab research is typically published. We increasingly recommend members to apply for registered reports and the department encourages open access publishing by reimbursing one open access publication for every doctoral researcher. More generally, we prefer publishing in journals that offer fair open access (i.e., full open access of publisher’s version, potentially with article processing costs paid for by a third party, and where authors retain copyrights), or in society-owned journals that offer green open access (i.e., full open access of post-print) without embargo’s on archiving on institutional or other repositories (e.g., OSF or ResearchGate). A list of journals in these categories can be found below (or here). We tend to avoid publishing in privately owned, for-profit journals that embargo archiving on institutional and other repositories.

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, … ;
    • 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