Making a Difference- The New ‘Weeds’ Journal | Published in Weeds - Journal of the Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-08-24
Summary:
"APWSS [Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society] is aware that for some organizations, journals are an essential source of revenue, which fund other activities, such as travel grants for researchers from developing countries. However, making revenue from the journal is not a priority for our Society. Instead, Weedswill be launched as a high-quality ‘Open Access’ (OA) publishing platform, charging only a nominal administrative fee from the authors to cover the costs of using a journal-management web platform...."