Journal team adds reviewer pay to open-access model

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-26

Summary:

"A new open-access journal called Collabra plans to pay reviewers, and that's a twist in the world of scientific publishing. The reviewers get to exercise some options. They can keep the cash (generally a modest sum) or give it back to the research world by donating the money to a waiver fund, for poor scientists who cannot pay the $875 publication fee. The third option is to contribute it to their own institution's open-access activities ..."

Link:

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-journal-team-open-access.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.gold oa.peer_review oa.u.california_press oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.fees oa.journals

Date tagged:

01/26/2015, 15:27

Date published:

01/26/2015, 10:27