But in the meantime, here are some options for those in my colleague's position.
Whatever journal you choose (except for a few holdouts like
Am J Psychiatry and Cell Press titles—and
Neurology), you can send a preprint to bioRxiv or PeerJ Preprints before you send the manuscript for publication. That protects your rights substantially. You can also try to submit a SPARC addendum to the journal’s copyright transfer form (
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum) and see if the publisher accepts it. That’s what I did with my last paper for my society journal, the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28121259/#comments).
There are open journals with high JIF. Here is a very short list of a few I've used or considered: