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The Future of Diamond Open Access in Astrophysics
The Open Journal of Astrophysics is now reasonably well established as a Diamond Open Access journal for the astrophysics community. We have published over a hundred articles so far this year at such a low cost that we can make our publications free to read and to publish. Thanks for all this is due to the volunteers on our Editorial Board, the excellent team at Maynooth University library, who have supported this project for 6 years, to the arXiv, as well of course to the authors who have chosen to publish with us.
Although we have established a good base, we’re still much smaller than the mainstream journals publishing just a few percent of their output. There is no sign of a slowdown at OJAp. Indeed there are signs that pace will pick up. I heard last week, for example, that Oxford University Press (the publisher of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) has decided to cancel the ‘Read-and-Publish’ agreement that allowed authors from Australian institutions to avoid APCs. I imagine we’ll get quite a few more submissions from Down Under thanks to that decision.
Nevertheless, we’ve a long way to go to catch up with the likes of A&A, MNRAS and ApJ in terms of numbers. If activity continues to grow then we will incur greater costs – our provider, Scholastica, charges us per paper. Those costs will still be smaller than regular journals, but I think it’s unfair that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland.
Expense is only one issue. I never envisaged that OJAp would be unique. It was more intended to be a proof of concept. I would like to see a range of Diamond Open Access journals offering a choice for authors and serving different sub-disciplines. Most universities nowadays have publishing operations so there could be network of federated journals, some based on arXiv and some based on other repositories. Perhaps institutions are worried about the expense but, as we have shown the actual cost, is far less than they are wasting on Article Processing Charges. I rather think it’s not the money that is the issue, just the unimaginatively risk-averse thinking in what passes these days for university management.
There are two simple – but not mutually exclusive – possibilities.
One is that astrophysics institutions club together and donate funds not only to keep OJAp going, but also to allow us to invest in improvements. A donation equivalent to the cost of just one APC for a typical journal would help us enormously. We do actually get some donations already, but more would always be welcome. In the long run, an investment in Diamond Open Access would pay back many times in savings; OJAp has already saved the worldwide community over £500,000.
The other is that other members of the community follow the lead of OJAp and set up their own journals. I wouldn’t see others as much as competitors, more as allies with community-led federated system. In the light of the OUP decision mentioned above, why don’t Australian research institutions set up their own version of OJAp? I’d be happy to discuss how to start up such a journal with anyone interested.
If you would like to discuss either of these possibilities please use the comment box below or email me here.
P.S. There is another issue concerning the future of OJAp, which is that I will be retiring in a few years, but now isn’t the time to discuss that one!
#DiamondOpenAccess #journals #MNRAS #OpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #OxfordUniversityPress #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics
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Hundreds of new companion stars of #exoplanet host stars were found by astrophysicists at #UniJena analysing the lastest observational data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope. The researchers present their findings in the journal #MNRAS @royalastrosoc.
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Hundreds of new companion stars of #exoplanet host stars were found by astrophysicists at #UniJena analysing the lastest observational data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope. The researchers present their findings in the journal #MNRAS @royalastrosoc.
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Astrophysicists @UniJena analysed the latest observational data from the @ESAGaia space telescope and found hundreds of new companion stars of #exoplanet host stars. The team published the results in the journal #MNRAS @RoyalAstroSoc.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/01/17/extrasolar-worlds-between-several-suns -
Astrophysiker @UniJena werteten neueste Beobachtungsdaten des Weltraumteleskops @ESAGaia aus und fanden dabei Hunderte neue Begleitsterne von #Exoplaneten-Muttersternen. Seine Studie veröffentlichte das Team im Journal #MNRAS @RoyalAstroSoc.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/01/17/extrasolare-welten-zwischen-mehreren-sonnen -
🚨 Advance publication by Camila Franco, Felipe Avila, and Armando Bernui, in #MNRAS on probing isotropy in the Local Universe, using the Arecibo ALFALFA survey data: study finds a signature of the Dipole Repeller we discovered back in 2017. That's just great!
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3616#dipolerepeller #cosmology #cosmography #cosmicflows #isotropy #universe #localuniverse #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodon #arecibo #arecibotelescope #alfalfa #survey #space #science #research #knowledge
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🚨 Advance publication by Camila Franco, Felipe Avila, and Armando Bernui, in #MNRAS on probing isotropy in the Local Universe, using the Arecibo ALFALFA survey data: study finds a signature of the Dipole Repeller we discovered back in 2017. That's just great!
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3616#dipolerepeller #cosmology #cosmography #cosmicflows #isotropy #universe #localuniverse #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodon #arecibo #arecibotelescope #alfalfa #survey #space #science #research #knowledge
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🌌 The @royalastrosoc announced that all journals will be #OpenAccess from 📆 January 2024. All articles from the very first volumes published in 📆 1827 to the latest articles, will be free to read in their entirety. https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024
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🌌 The @royalastrosoc announced that all journals will be #OpenAccess from 📆 January 2024. All articles from the very first volumes published in 📆 1827 to the latest articles, will be free to read in their entirety. https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024
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The large scale velocity field from the Cosmicflows-4 data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01340
#cosmology #cosmography #cosmicflows #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #arxiv #space #science #research #publication #mnras
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The large scale velocity field from the Cosmicflows-4 data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01340
#cosmology #cosmography #cosmicflows #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #arxiv #space #science #research #publication #mnras
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De banen van 27 sterren die ronddraaien op kleine afstand van het zwarte gat in het centrum van onze Melkweg, zijn zo chaotisch dat onderzoekers niet betrouwbaar kunnen voorspellen waar ze over zo'n 462 jaar zijn.
Publicatie in #MNRAS van Simon Portegies Zwart et al.
Nieuwsbericht met links: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/beweging-sterren-dicht-bij-zwart-gat-centrum-melkweg-is-maar-paar-honderd-jaar-voorspelbaar-3880
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De banen van 27 sterren die ronddraaien op kleine afstand van het zwarte gat in het centrum van onze Melkweg, zijn zo chaotisch dat onderzoekers niet betrouwbaar kunnen voorspellen waar ze over zo'n 462 jaar zijn.
Publicatie in #MNRAS van Simon Portegies Zwart et al.
Nieuwsbericht met links: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/beweging-sterren-dicht-bij-zwart-gat-centrum-melkweg-is-maar-paar-honderd-jaar-voorspelbaar-3880
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The orbits of 27 stars moving closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are so chaotic that researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years.
📄 Paper in #MNRAS by Simon Portegies Zwart et al.
News release with links: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/motion-of-stars-near-milky-ways-central-black-hole-is-only-predictable-for-few-hundred-years-3880
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The orbits of 27 stars moving closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are so chaotic that researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years.
📄 Paper in #MNRAS by Simon Portegies Zwart et al.
News release with links: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/motion-of-stars-near-milky-ways-central-black-hole-is-only-predictable-for-few-hundred-years-3880
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A study of the distributions of the shape, topology, and morphology of the superclusters extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12) main galaxy sample, by Satadru Bag, Lauri Juhan Liivamägi, and Maret Einasto.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad811
#universe #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #galaxies #superclusters #astrodon #mnras #space #science #research
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A study of the distributions of the shape, topology, and morphology of the superclusters extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12) main galaxy sample, by Satadru Bag, Lauri Juhan Liivamägi, and Maret Einasto.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad811
#universe #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #galaxies #superclusters #astrodon #mnras #space #science #research
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Apparently #MNRAS will charge publication fees soon. That means I will publish my papers elsewhere. I think charging researchers to publish results is wrong because 1) it's a form of gatekeeping and 2) my research funds are finite and I'd rather give what I have to my students. And no, publishing is not inherently expensive - it's expensive by choice. The Open Journal of Astrophysics and The Journal of Open Source Software have already shown that it can be done differently. #OpenAcess #astrodon
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Apparently #MNRAS will charge publication fees soon. That means I will publish my papers elsewhere. I think charging researchers to publish results is wrong because 1) it's a form of gatekeeping and 2) my research funds are finite and I'd rather give what I have to my students. And no, publishing is not inherently expensive - it's expensive by choice. The Open Journal of Astrophysics and The Journal of Open Source Software have already shown that it can be done differently. #OpenAcess #astrodon