New open access journal plans to pay peer-reviewers | Science/AAAS | News

"A new open access scientific journal hopes that paying peer reviewers a little hard cash will help strengthen efforts to make research results freely available to the public. Collabra, an online journal to be formally introduced tomorrow at a conference in the United Kingdom, plans to break with the research community’s longstanding tradition of reviewing journal submissions for free by paying small sums to the reviewers and editors who decide what gets published. In a further twist, the journal will give the payees a choice of what to do with their money. They can keep the cash, donate it to a fund that helps cash-strapped scientists pay the journal’s $875 publication fee, or contribute it to their own institution’s open access activities ..."