Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of submission. But few confirmed details are available about the journal, which doesn't yet have a name, editor, publisher, or business model....The journal will be open access, meaning that articles will be freely available online the moment they are published. But while most [PS: false] open access journals cover costs by charging authors up to $3000 per paper, the new journal will not charge so-called author fees "for a number of years," Walport said. He confirmed rumors of another unusual feature: the journal is considering whether to pay reviewers. One person familiar with the discussions told Science reviewers might get paid increasingly smaller amounts, the longer they took....Walport declined to specify how much money the three organizations are putting into the journal. Tjian, however, pointed out that the cost of publishing their investigators' papers is "a rounding error" compared with the $800 million or so a year that they each put into research....He also emphasized that the Wellcome Trust, HHMI, and Planck will not require their investigators to publish in the new journal. "There will be no pressure either overt or covert on the scientists that we fund to choose this journal," Walport says...."

Link:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/06/three-biomedical-funders-to-launch.html?ref=hp

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Tags:

ru.no oa.journals oa.new oa.peer_review oa.funders

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:25

Date published:

06/27/2011, 17:14