Expensive, cheap or free?

Scientific findings get mostly published in expensive scientific journals. That the authors may publish their findings themselves one year after the journal article has been published seems to many a foul trick. In German.

New practices in scientific peer review

As a consequence and to respond to the scientists’ needs, some journals also involves themselves by providing new peer review models.

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Posted: June 19, 2013
Tags: peer review scientific journal scientific publishing

Open access: The true cost of science publishing

Tied into the varying costs of journals is the number of articles that they reject. PLoS ONE (which charges authors $1,350) publishes 70% of submitted articles, whereas Physical Review Letters (a hybrid journal that has an optional open-access charge of $2,700) publishes fewer than 35%;Nature published just 8% in 2011.

Nature.

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Posted: April 2, 2013
Tags: costs nature Open Access science publishing scientific journal

Live Chat: Should scientific articles be free?

Read the archived chat between Heather Joseph, who advocates for open access as the executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and Frederick Dylla, who has expressed concerns about the implementation of open access as executive director of the American Institute of Physics.

Science Magazine.

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A comic on scientific publishing.

Blog post.

Open access for development: a battle not yet won

Restrictions (in scientific publishing, A.N.) not only affect scientists but also science journalists. For journalists, open access to science needs to be complemented by open access to scientists. Yet there are still too many obstacles to the free flow of scientific information — from rapacious publishers to restrictive intellectual property laws and unsympathetic research institutions. The battle for the acceptance of science journalists and communicators as key players in the development field, and for free access to scientific information, is far from over.

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Posted: August 27, 2012
Tags: Open Access restriction scientific journal

Publisher Wiley Extends Open Access Option to Over 80% of Journals

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today that its open access option for individual journal articles, OnlineOpen, will be available to authors in 81% of the journals it publishes. OnlineOpen gives authors the option to publish an open access paper in their journal of choice where it will benefit from maximum impact.

Press release by John Whiley & Sons.