b'Editors desk Editors deskOn July 12 the American GeophysicalPreview authors can rest easy in thatpost-mineralisation cover because of Union (AGU) announced that it wouldthe ASEG does not charge an APC forsome clever geophysical modelling. All transition its journal Geophysical Researcharticles published in Preview. The costhail Jim and Callum!Letters to fully open access in Januaryof publication is covered by advertising 2023 (https://fromtheprow.agu.org/ and, in the case of any shortfall, by ASEGWe also have a mini-feature by Bhavik agu-acceleration-to-open-access-with- Members. Please do consider advertising inHarish Lodhia on the stability of CO 2 , a geophysical-research-letters-transition/).Preview (email me at previeweditor@aseg. topic that should be of great interest to Nine of AGUs 23 journals are already openorg.au if you are interested)for obviousthose of you getting into the CO 2geo-access, and the Union has announcedreasons we treasure your contribution! sequestration game.its intention of transitioning at least oneIn news and commentary, David Denham journal to fully open access per year overIn parallel with a move to open access, many journals have signed up to the(Canberra observed) takes a look at key the next five years. Without doubt, theplayers in the new Federal Government trend to open access by the worlds bestFAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guiding principles for researchfrom the geoscientists perspective. He known scientific journals is accelerating. also takes a look at the latest data on the data management. Contributing authors Initially it could be argued that theare asked to lodge the data (raw andhealth of the mining industry. Marina move was driven by funding agenciesprocessed) that forms the basis of theirPervukhina (Education matters) urges demanding that, as the public was largelyarticle, together with copies of code usedreaders to unleash their creativity by funding the research that was beingto process and/or model the data, in aexploring online offerings in the soft published in scientific journals, the publiccommunity accepted, trusted repository.sciences. Mike Hatch (Environmental should be able to access the resultsMany such repositories exist see forgeophysics) delivers the fourth episode of freely. There was also a general disquietexample https://data.agu.org/resources/ Niels Christensens adventures in which about the large profits being made byuseful-domain-repositories. This moveNiels describes his first meeting with publishing houses on the back of publiclyis designed partly to ensure scientificlocal hero Jim Macnae!funded research and the efforts of mostlyintegrity (the data can be checked andTerry Harvey (Mineral geophysics) muses voluntary editorial teams and scientificanalysis repeated etc.) but will also help toabout the advantages and disadvantages reviewers. address the problem of the preservationof remote management of mineral of, and access to, historical data and code.exploration projects in Australia and However, once the movement to openHowever, the practice may not suit thoseMick Micenko (Seismic window) re-visits access got going it became apparentwho are working under a confidentialitythe glory days of Australian oil and gas that, on average, open access articlesagreement, or those that feel that thereexploration. Tim Keeping (Data trends) were downloaded more than three timesis more in their data that they would likeinvites readers to consider contributing as often as subscription articles. Opento explore without the feeling that someto a new ASEG library of historical data access articles were also cited 50% moreeager beaver might breathing down theirfile formats, and Ian James (Webwaves) frequently compared to subscriptionneck. We live in interesting times! asks have you been Pwned?articles, and open access articles received nearly three times as much alternativeThis issue of Preview features a gemEnjoy!metrics attention as subscription articlesof an article on the discovery of the (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author- Havieron Gold-Copper deposit in WA byLisa Worrall resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/ Jim Hanneson and Callum Baxter. ThePreview Editor the-open-access-advantage.html). deposit was discovered under 420 m ofprevieweditor@aseg.org.auPreview is open access, and it could be argued that a large part of Previews success in terms attracting global readership is because it is freely available online.The downside of open access can be the Article Publication Charge (APC). The most expensive journal in Wileys list of 1400 journals with APC charges is $US 6100. The APC for Geophysical Research Letters is $US 2700. The APC for Geophysical prospecting is $US 3650, and the APC for the Journal of Geophysical Research is $US 3600. Our own Exploration Geophysics is not open access, but authors can choose to make their article freely available via Open Select. The APC for articles published in Exploration Geophysics via Open Select is $US 2850 or $AU 4130. The Editor in the Herberton TinfieldsVulcan Mine at Irvinebank to be precise!AUGUST 2022 PREVIEW 2'