Contributed By David Barner, Roger Levy, and Jesse Snedeker Instant Open Archiving: A How-to Guide “Instant Open Archiving” (IOA) refers to the practice whereby Action Editors of peer reviewed journals require authors to archive preprints of manuscripts on a public digital archive such as PsyArXiv.org, ArXiv.org or RePEc.org at the time of submission. If this … Continue reading →

Here are Frequently Asked Questions for Editorial teams interested in Instant Open Archiving: 1. What is a Pre-print? What is a Post-print? For a review of these terms, see this helpful article in Scientific American, where the following descriptions are provided: “Pre-print – A pre-print is the original version of the manuscript as it is … Continue reading →

Contributed by David Barner, Roger Levy, and Jesse Snedeker Currently, when researchers publish new studies in academic journals, most articles are secured behind a paywall and are accessible only to institutions or individuals who pay sizable subscriptions fees. This is problematic because science is funded by the public and has the potential to benefit the … Continue reading →

A review of what happened, why we support Open Access, and a proposal for shifting all journals to Open Access with a single, free, tweak to editorial policy. Contributed by David Barner, Roger Levy, and Jesse Snedeker Summary We review our recent effort to encourage the adoption of Open Access at Cognition, how the Editorial … Continue reading →

Contributed by David Barner and Jesse Snedeker, in consultation with Johan Rooryck   Here are some briefs replies to Frequently Asked Questions we’ve encountered in response to our previous post, “Fair Open Access at Cognition.” We thank those of you who asked these questions, and encourage you to continue to ask them, so we can collectively understand … Continue reading →

Dear Friends of Cognition (International Journal of Cognitive Science), Recently the editorial team of the journal Lingua, led by Johan Rooryck, petitioned Elsevier to support a transition to a Fair Open Access model of publishing (as described below). When Elsevier rejected this proposal, the 6 Editors of Lingua resigned en masse, and created a new … Continue reading →