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Title: Are there any accessible and inexpensive peer review journals?
Post by: Martin J Sallberg on 04/11/2013 14:16:34
My University Teacher have told me that less than 1 percent of scientists ever get an article published in heavily prestigious journals like Nature. He recommended me to publish in peer review journals on Springer instead, but there the terms says that it costs 3000 Euros, and I do not have that much money. Are there any peer review journals where it is both cheap to publish articles and realistic odds of publication?
Title: Re: Are there any accessible and inexpensive peer review journals?
Post by: Martin J Sallberg on 04/11/2013 15:24:44
That is, I am asking for advice of where to publish articles.
Title: Re: Are there any accessible and inexpensive peer review journals?
Post by: evan_au on 05/11/2013 07:34:01
There is a global movement to make more peer-reviewed papers freely available on the internet, rather than via (often expensive) subscriptions that are really only affordable by University Library.

But this raises the question about "Who pays for the editorial staff and the printing/web servers?" (Referees often work for free). Web servers are often cheaper than a large print run, but still not free. Unfortunately, it is often the author who pays, under this model.

The UK government has reportedly decided that government-sponsored projects should publish in "free to read" journals.
However, there is apparently a bit of a disconnect: The directive to publish for free started this year, but the funding to actually publish in one of these journals doesn't start until next year...
Title: Re: Are there any accessible and inexpensive peer review journals?
Post by: Martin J Sallberg on 06/11/2013 06:23:22
I could wait until next year to publish (less than 2 months left and still some work left to do on my articles), but the question is: does the "free to publish" policy apply to foreign authors? I am not an UK citizen. If it indeed does apply to foreign citizens, can you please post links so that I can use the time left until next year to adapt my article writing style to said web "papers"?
Title: Re: Are there any accessible and inexpensive peer review journals?
Post by: kattp on 18/11/2013 06:25:09
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