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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Price and Cost Transparency Data 2024

Our four research journals, Genome Research, Genes & Development, RNA, Learning & Memory, are actively committed to transitioning to a fully open access model in accordance with cOAltion S guidelines. As Transformative Journals we report and update their progress on this page.

CSHL PLAN S Transparency Data

Contents Overview

  • Key measures of progress
    • in expanding the percentage of Open Access (OA) article publication in our hybrid research journals. These include growth in OA penetration rate as a percentage of all articles published and growth toward cOAlitionS targeted goals
  • CSHL Press – APC fees Expense breakout
    • transparency for these costs as proposed by Plan S
    • please note that CSHLP fees are among the lowest for journals of similar quality from both for-profit and non-profit publishers
  • Hybrid Subscription Prices
    • 2025 subscription prices will be adjusted to prevent double-dipping per cOAlitionS guidance as was done in previous years, as shown below.
  • CSHL and CSHL Press have been firmly committed and engaged in fostering the growth of open access communication for many years in several key ways
    • long-standing stewards of core peer-reviewed research journals in biology, molecular biology, genetics and related disciplines
    • as founders of bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers for researchers to communicate, comment and share their research in advance of peer-review (and as a submission portal to more than 250 journal from more than 95 publishers worldwide

Key Measures of Progress

CSHL Press – APC fees Expense breakout

  • APC prices are consistent across all CSHLP research titles. Expenses are, on average, also consistent for each title and are detailed in the chart below.

Hybrid Pricing for CSHLP Research Journal Subscriptions

  • Prices were adjusted to reflect increase in OA content vs non-OA
    • using comparative “3-year period” model suggested by Royal Society
  • All journals saw growth in OA % which helped reduce subscription increases
    • All journals saw growth in OA % which helped moderate subscription prices
  • Pricing was based on a methodology suggested by Tasha Mellon-Cohen in her article “Price Transparency: Let’s Make It Simple” and her consultation for CSHLP hybrid journal subscription pricing
  • Mellins-Cohen, Tasha. 2021. “Price Transparency: Let’s Make It Simple”. Insights 34 (1): 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.551
  • As reflected in the data below CSHLP hybrid titles will have a price increase of no more than 2%.
  • Pricing reflects application of the OA vs non-OA growth as noted, the principles outlined in “Price Transparency” combined with the most recent annual inflation rate, which is the benchmark used by many STEM publishers (from the US Department of Commerce).