A colleague just drew my attention to the 2016 introduction of a $1000 post-acceptance fee at the International Journal of Design, which for a young journal is a quality venue.
I know a number of list members are on the board, so I thought it might be worth asking a little more about this as a practice, and/or about the considerations that may have gone in to deciding this. I have my own impressions, but I’m interested in others’ thoughts.
One of the great things about IJD is that it is open access, and I note the $1000 fee is comparable to other open access fees at other journals that are not open access by default (e.g. where you can choose to pay, as an accepted author, to make your article freely available online). I also appreciate that the review process takes place before there is any question of a fee, so submission quality is assessed independently of the means of the authors.
But I am keen to hear the list’s views on
(a) how this change may affect authors who would be likely to submit to the journal
(b) what pressure this may place on the journal to maintain quality, e.g. reduce output if/when submission numbers diminish (or whether submission numbers have even declined)
(c) what considerations go into a change of this kind, and what alternatives might be considered
(d) what the prospects are for open access journals in our field if one such as IJD has felt the need to pass costs onto the authors, since doing research is already expensive
(e) perhaps most crucially, what effect this may have for representative inclusion of the many institutions and research groups, independent researchers, and others in design who may not be able to rely on institutional budgets or funding grants to cover publication costs such as these, given design research is perhaps not high among many national research funding priorities (certainly in Australia at least)
Kind regards
Ben
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Ben Matthews | Senior Lecturer, Interaction Design
Program Director, Master of Interaction Design
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland | Brisbane | 4072
Australia | Phone +61 7 3365 2185 | Email [log in to unmask]
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