3
If publication costs (APCs, page charges, open access fees) were no longer allowable under your federal grants, what would be the most likely impact on your own research dissemination?
Results
(167 Answers)
Answer Explanations
- I would seek non-federal funding sources specifically to cover publication costsuser-672631you kidding: what a pain!
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-842404In some cases, my institution has agreements that cover APCs, but if the costs are not covered by the funding organization (which could mean non-federal funding of individual projects), I would need to publish where there is no APC, resulting in lower visibility for my work.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-477051I don't hold a federal grant, nor am I an American citizen, but the question is good; therefore, I'll only state the option I marked above and won't say anything further.
- user-359434I already only publish if I get a waiver or if tehre are no publication fees. In Argentina federal grants do not cover publication fees in general.
- No significant impact — my institution or other funding sources would cover ituser-541511While I no longer work in academia, I imagine that institutions would pick up the costs as it is the major driver for grants in R1 institutions at the cost of dropping and equivalent or more expensive service covered by indirects. If a few thousand dollars is the difference between not publishing data and getting grants, I’m sure they would gladly eat the cost and drop a different support service to fund it from indirects.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-498547For companies using STTR grants, the main focus is validating targets and biological pathways rather than publishing in prestigious journals. Bypassing expensive publication fees in favor of low-cost, open-access alternatives preserves grant funds for critical pre-clinical testing.
- Some of my work would simply go unpublished or be significantly delayeduser-487884Funds to cover reasonalbe publication costs should be available from sources other than federal grants.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-890708采用低成本的网络刊物等
- Some of my work would simply go unpublished or be significantly delayeduser-364988Delays in publications is REAL, even in journals where APC is covered by an institutional agreement. The Peer Reviewer model holds almost no incentives towards the reviewer, neither holds accountability (except for reputation). So, reviewers who are bona fide experts are becoming increasingly rarer as they do not want to "waste their time" on lower-impact factor journals (read as those that do not have have APC-paid models). So one can only imagine what calamities "defunding such a mechanism" might bring upon the researcher.
- I would rely more on preprints and institutional repositories instead of traditional journal publicationuser-616368The goverment funding agencies should first find the way to avoid APCs and then eliminate support for publishing. Otherwise, most scientific results will end up in a drawer, due to lack of specific funding.
- I would seek non-federal funding sources specifically to cover publication costsuser-568782After performing a great research work and getting relevant findings, it will be interesting to seek another funding source to cover the APC fee. In general the research institution by itself or in collaboration can fund APC fee, when the paper is accepted for publication after a rigorous pee review process.
In the other hand, it is possible to plan a separated budget covering the APC fee. - I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-673903As a retired person who still publishes, I must either get fee waivers or publish non-open access. While some of my work is federally funded, there are little or no remaining funds for APCs.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-960476I'd probably move toward journals with lower or no APCs, even if that sometimes means a less prestigious title or a smaller readership. In medicine and forensic science, preprints and repositories help with visibility, but they're not a real substitute for peer-reviewed publication. And if publication costs get pulled out of grant budgets with nothing put in their place, people will end up choosing journals based on cost rather than scientific fit.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-268617Publishing your own work online is great. It is free. You get to control the format. Post-publication peer-review in public dialog is superior to tradtional pre-pub peer review. Finding an audience is the hard part. Researchers may want to explore skipping a journal and comparing what an APC's worth of online marketing (e.g. $3000 in Google Ads) delivers.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-984622I would also consider journals that have agreements with my institution for reduced or waived APCs. If the model turned to researchers having to personally pay to publish, or to fundraise separately, I would probably turn to a preprint model if there was community support (e.g. counts towards promotion decisions) or just look for a new career.
- No significant impact — my institution or other funding sources would cover ituser-78358The institution should be able to cover the funds
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-883415Without grant support for publication fees, researchers would likely prioritize affordable journals, potentially reducing visibility, impact, and reach
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-110802This is what is currently happening in developed countries.
- No significant impact — my institution or other funding sources would cover ituser-964797I do not receive federal grants.
- I would rely more on preprints and institutional repositories instead of traditional journal publicationuser-391907I would have to publish things non-open access and post them on other platforms. This however could go against the publishing agreements of certain journals, meaning I would have to avoid publishing at those outlets
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-11803Unfortunately, in my experience in Latin America, there isn't much support for research. So, if this were to happen, it's very likely that the money would have to come out of our own pockets, as is often the case these days.
- I would rely more on preprints and institutional repositories instead of traditional journal publicationuser-862972Preprints and institutional repositories are effective ways to address this problem. However, each country should have a national repository that keeps all the publicly funded research open access. It's completely bunkers to pay for my own research, which was funded by taxpayers' money, and resulting in profit for someone for free.
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-533989
- I would shift to journals with lower or no APCs, even if they are less prestigious or have smaller readershipsuser-188641Without APC grant coverage, authors will have to seek out free publications, special free guest offers
with proper indexing. - Some of my work would simply go unpublished or be significantly delayeduser-5378There is not one response to this question. If publications costs are no longer allowable under federal grants, then I would be forced to use multiple strategies, including shifting to journals with lower publication costs, forging open access, relying more on preprints and institutional repositories and, in some instances, not publishing some work. I have recently published research results from contracted work with a federal agency that is not open access because they rejected the fees as excessive. I agree with them.