Journal Checker Tool

JCT

Journal Checker Tool (JCT) is an online tool created by cOAlition S that enables authors funded by research organisations supporting Plans S to find compliant “routes” through which to publish their articles.

If you are looking for a compliant journal for your funded research, use the Journal Checker Tool. To use the Journal Checker Tool, enter the name of the journal you wish to publish with (or ISSN number), your research funder (NCN) and your current institution (AGH University). This information will then be checked against the publisher and research funders open access policies, as well as any publisher agreements your institution is part of and provide advice on whether there is a compliant publishing route.

The tool checks whether:

  • the journal offers an open access publication path under a CC BY (or equivalent) licence and without embargo,
  • authors have the possibility to preserve their copyright,
  • the journal is fully open access and compliant with Plan S,
  • is covered by a transitional agreement with an institution (for us, NCN),
  • is a transformative journal,
  • it is a subscription journal that allows self-archiving (e.g. publishing a postprint in an institutional repository).

The results given by the Journal Checker Tool are explained below.

Open Access journal

Zrzut ekranu z napisem: Full Open Access. Go ahead and submit. Remember to select a CC BY licence to ensure compliance. Upon publication, jou have the right to self-archive the final published article as an additional route to compliance rather than an alternative route.

The journal is fully compliant with Plan S:

  • the manuscript published in open access in a journal or publishing platform that makes the version of record immediately open access via its website or possibly an AAM/VoR version made available in a repository,
  • CC BY 4.0 licence (CC BY ND acceptable),
  • APC costs are eligible.

Self-Archiving

zrzut ekranu z napisem: Self-archiving. Upon acceptance, you can deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript in a repository without embargo and with a CC BY licence. Publishing fees do not apply with this route.

The journal does not fully compliant with Plan S:

  • the journal is a hybrid or transformative journal/journal covered by a transformative agreement,
  • CC BY 4.0 licence (CC BY ND acceptable),
  • publisher will allow you to deposit your final accepted manuscript (AAM) in an open access repository with no embargo period and under a CC BY open access (the VoR version will be available for a fee on the journal website). If the publisher refuses to waive the embargo period (even when the author points out that it is a condition required by the research-funding agency), contact the NCN,
  • APC are not recognized as eligible costs.

It is worth checking the publisher's policy, e.g. at Sherpa Romeo.

Rights Retention Strategy RRS

zrzut ekranu z napisem: Compliance through self-archiving using rights retention. Your fuder's grant conditions set out how you can retain sufficient rights to self-archive the Author Accepted Manuscript in any OA repository. Publishing ffes do not apply with this route.

The journal does not fully compliant with Plan S:

  • the journal is hybrid or transformational/covered by a transitional agreement,
  • CC BY 4.0 licence (CC BY ND acceptable),
  • the repository where the manuscript will be deposited (AAM or VoR) must be registered with openDOAR, 
  • the manuscript’s Acknowledgements section and the cover letter submitted to the journal should include the following RRS clause: "This research was funded in whole or in part by [Funder] [Grant number]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission”,
  • before signing an agreement with the publisher, the author must make sure that the copyrights will be retained by the author (if the agreement transfers the copyrights, it is necessary to point out that the grant agreement under which the research is funded requires their retention; if the publisher still refuses to comply contact the NCN),
  • after publication by the publisher, you can deposit your final accepted manuscript (AAM) in an open access repository with no embargo period and under a CC BY open access (the VoR version will be available for a fee on the journal website). If the publisher refuses to waive the embargo period (even when the author points out that it is a condition required by the research-funding agency), contact the NCN,
  • APC costs are ineligible

It is worth checking the publisher's policy, e.g. at Sherpa Romeo.

Transformative Journal

zrzut ekranu z napisem: Transformative journal. Go ahead and submit. Remember to select the open access publishing option with a CC BY licence to ensure compliance. Some funders do not support the payment of publishing ffes in Transformative Journals. Check hre to confirm if your funder will support the payment of publishing fees.
  • the author must make sure that the manuscript will be published under a CCBY8 or a CC-BY-SA10 licence, optionally, a CC-BY-ND licence may be used,
  • APC are recognized as eligible costs.

Transformative Agreement

zrzut ekranu z napisem: Transformative agreement. The corresponding author of the submitted article must be based at an institution within this transformative agrement for it to provide a route to compliance. Other conditions may also be in place around publishing through this agreement.
  • the author must make sure that the manuscript will be published under a CCBY8 or a CC-BY-SA10 licence, optionally, a CC-BY-ND licence may be used,
  • please make sure that the institution to which the corresponding author is affiliated is covered by a licence under a transformative agreement (a list of national transformative agreements, including consortium licences),
  • APC are recognized as eligible costs.