Dear researchers,I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

[ajayiyer@mastodon.social]

Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.

Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):

1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability

#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia

Please #boost so I can reach other academics.

[racingreen17@mastodon.social]

@ajayiyer my view is that institutions should publish their own research online, with a managed forum below for comment. I know why it came about, but using journal impact factor as a surrogate for the value or importance of a publication has always been inadequate and has encouraged back channels and favoritism. Institutions have a good incentive to maintain ethical and publication standards because it affects their reputation

[nyhan@fediscience.org]

@ajayiyer
In the Lens, you can query for a topic, then use the filters to remove articles from publishers you want to avoid, as I have done here: https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/list?q=field_of_study:%22Sustainability%22&p=0&n=10&s=_score&d=%2B&f=false&e=false&l=en&authorField=author&dateFilterField=publishedYear&orderBy=%2B_score&presentation=false&preview=true&stemmed=true&useAuthorId=false&publicationType.must=journal%20article&publisher.mustNot=Elsevier%20BV&publishedYear.from=2020&publishedYear.to=2026
After that, you can go to the Journal filter to see the relative prevalence of different journals that remain in your search results set.

[nyhan@fediscience.org]

@ajayiyer
Their journal filter also has a tool to retrieve papers from diamond journals only (neither the reader nor the author pays)

[nyhan@fediscience.org]

@ajayiyer
Also relevant to your interests
https://zenodo.org/records/13886473

[darisan@openbiblio.social]

@ajayiyer BISON might help: https://service.tib.eu/bison/

[edthechem@mas.to]

@ajayiyer The Royal Society of Chemistry have a few for 2 and 4, but which one depends on your specifics!

[kskehu@mementomori.social]

@ajayiyer if Springer is okay, maybe Hydrobiologia?

https://link.springer.com/journal/10750

[ajayiyer@mastodon.social]

@nyhan That is such a cool study. I have previously looked at this resource: https://zenodo.org/records/4553103

for diamond access journals in my field, but to no avail.

[korinnaallhoff@ecoevo.social]

@ajayiyer
Probably not exactly your field, unfortunately, but for #ecology and #evolution there is the DAFNEE database of #academia friendly journals! Maybe you could build something similar for your field?

#AcademicChatter

https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/

[korinnaallhoff@ecoevo.social]

@ajayiyer
Oh, and I can totally recommend PCI (Peer Community In) to avoid greedy publishers! Maybe there is a PCI that covers your research topics?

https://peercommunityin.org/

[srlevine@neuromatch.social]

@ajayiyer PLOS Biology, Biology Open (from the Company of Biologists), eLife

[rustoleumlove@mastodon.online]

@ajayiyer

elife is interesting and they accept publish a lot of different types of papers

they have an open book review process last i checked, where you can see who the reviewers are, what their comments were, researchers' replies, etc.

https://elifesciences.org/browse

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@kskehu @ajayiyer

afaik, springer is not ok

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@ajayiyer

1
I don't know if this fits your criteria, but this is a well respected journal in mol bio
https://www.molbiolcell.org/

2
why on earth are you asking here ?
ask your colleagues ?
ask on bluesky ?

[hydropsyche@ecoevo.social]

@ajayiyer Marine or freshwater? Limnology and Oceanography (journal of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography) does both. https://www.aslo.org/limnology-and-oceanography/

Freshwater Science (journal of Society for Freshwater Science) if just freshwater. https://www.freshwater-science.org/Journal/about-fws/

[wisel@stranger.social]

@ajayiyer you could look into https://stacksjournal.org

[colinrbeas@fediscience.org]

@ajayiyer

Try the Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org The majority do *not* charge APCs. You can filter using different criteria.

[v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social]

@ajayiyer what @darisan says! #BISON

[ajayiyer@mastodon.social]

@SRLevine You know funnily, I've had quite a bad experience with PLOS (One). I hope PLOS Biology is better.