I shared the latest draft with a colleague in the public health research community, which is one area where open access has made some progress. Her thoughts are pasted below.
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-18-2014 20:51
From: L Robin Keller
Subject: Your feedback on Open Access publications
Here is a draft of an INFORMS Open Access Policy. The INFORMS Board discussed it at the July Board meeting and will vote on a policy at the Board meeting in San Francisco in November 2014. (Comments are welcome, send to committee chair Robin Keller at LRKeller@uci.edu.)
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INFORMS recognizes open access (OA) as the unrestricted public access to data and manuscripts peer-reviewed and accepted on behalf of any of the association's publications. INFORMS policy on open access will evolve. In its current state, INFORMS recognizes the following:
1. Open access is part of the future of publications and is in line with INFORMS' mission to promote greater use of its knowledge by all organizations and the general public.
2. The revenue generated from the current subscription model enables INFORMS to process and deliver journals of the highest standards that, in return, help it to achieve its mission to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in advanced analytics, operations research, the management sciences, and related methods of improving operational processes, decision-making, and management.
3. Efforts to expand open access should not be done at the expense of the quality and status of INFORMS' publications. Every effort must be made to sustain these standards.
4. INFORMS has worked to maintain extremely competitive subscription prices to ensure accessibility to members, the public, and institutions. This traditional subscription model can co-exist with open access as long as doing so does not disrupt the current journal revenue.
As part of its efforts to support open access, INFORMS commits to continuing to provide "the following green" and "gold" open access options to its authors:
Gold open access option. In February 2013, the INFORMS Board of Directors approved the creation of INFORMS Open Option (IOO). IOO provides an open access alternative for articles accepted for publication in any one of 13 INFORMS journals that would have otherwise only been available through subscriptions or pay per view. Authors of an accepted manuscript who want to take advantage of IOO are responsible for a one-time publication fee which ensures that the article would be made available to anyone online via INFORMS PubsOnline, for free and in perpetuity. The publication fee is set annually by the publications committee as part of its annual review of journal pricing.
Green open access options. Authors may post the accepted manuscript of their papers on personal websites immediately after acceptance. Authors may post the accepted version of their manuscripts in non-commercial institutional repositories 12-months after INFORMS publishes the final typeset and copyedited paper online. Starting for papers published after January 1, 2015, INFORMS does not allow the final typeset and copyedited version to be posted on personal websites or in institutional repositories.
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L Robin Keller, Open Access committee chair (and INFORMS President-elect)
Professor
University of California-Irvine
Irvine CA
LRKeller@uci.edu
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-10-2014 23:20
From: L Robin Keller
Subject: Your feedback on Open Access publications
The INFORMS Board of Directors is looking into the growing demand for research manuscripts and data to be available free to the public. The revenue generated from our current subscription model enables INFORMS to process and deliver journals of the highest standards that, in return, help it to achieve its mission to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge.
INFORMS recognizes open access (OA) as the unrestricted public access to data and manuscripts peer-reviewed and accepted on behalf of any of the association's publications. INFORMS policy on open access will evolve. The Board discussed open access at its last board meeting, and will address it again at the July Board meeting. I am chairing an ad hoc committee to propose an INFORMS open access policy.
INFORMS authors now have the option of paying a one-time fee (currently $3000) to have a paper be available online for free to readers. Their article would appear in our subscription journals along with papers not available for free.
Gold open access option. In February 2013, the INFORMS Board of Directors approved the creation of INFORMS Open Option (IOO). IOO provides an open access alternative for articles accepted for publication in any one of 13 INFORMS journals that would have otherwise only been available through subscriptions or pay per view. Authors of an accepted manuscript who want to take advantage of IOO are responsible for a one-time publication fee which ensures that the article would be made available to anyone online via INFORMS PubsOnline, for free and in perpetuity. The publication fee is set annually by the publications committee as part of its annual review of journal pricing.
We would welcome feedback via INFORMS Connect online or direct email on your experiences and opinions about open access.
Are you required by your funding agency, institution, or country to publish your work in an open access format?
Does our gold open access option meet your needs?
Does your academic merit review require that your work be only open access?
Do you have to publish in fully open access journals (all papers are open access) only?
How should INFORMS respond to this open access trend?
What are other associations/publishers doing?
Open Access committee
L. Robin Keller, INFORMS President-elect, Chair, president_elect@mail.informs.org or lrkeller@uci.edu
Ozlem Ergun, INFORMS Vice President, Membership/Public Recognition
Nick Hall, INFORMS Treasurer
M. Eric Johnson, INFORMS Vice President, Publications
Miranda Walker, INFORMS Director of Publications, miranda.walker@informs.org
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L Robin Keller
Professor
University of California-Irvine
Irvine CA
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