Extra journal publication fees undermine open science, scientific director says
Researchers should not pay journal publication fees or article processing charges (APCs), Alain Schuhl, the scientific director of the CNRS, France’s largest public research organisation, has said. Instead, the research agency wants researchers to publish with free and open journals and start to deposit their manuscripts in open archives.
Schuhl’s request, published on the CNRS website, serves to reinforce government policy to encourage open science. CNRS policy asks that those who do publish in subscription-only journals also make a simultaneous deposit in France’s national open access archive, HAL, founded in 1991 and reinvigorated by the move towards open publication.
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