Open access, peer review in 30 days, sliding scale publication fee – the future of science journals? | A Man With A Ph.D.

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-19

Summary:

"I’m very pleased to see that Sociological Science is open for article submissions, and expects to start publishing articles early next year. The journal is designed to ameliorate several problems that beset academic publishing. It’s an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that promises a fast turnaround time in review. It’s common enough in some fields for authors to get stuck, literally for years, in Reviewer Hell. There, papers are subject to repeated rounds of review, new reviewers are added at each round, new demands are placed on authors, and later reviewers routinely object to content in the paper—e.g., further supposed theoretical development or methodological bells and whistles—that was added at the behest of earlier reviewers. Reviewer Hell is only one of the pathological forms peer review can take. but recently it’s become a real problem for some of the leading journals in the field. Sociological Science promises a 30 day up-or-down review process, with no “development” effort and no R&R process. They hope to accomplish this with a relatively large pool of Deputy Editors with authority to accept or reject articles. As a properly open-access journal, they’ve chosen to fund themselves through submission and publication fees instead of signing up with a major journal publisher or soliciting institutional support from a university or a foundation. The fee schedule is graded by rank, so students pay least and full professors pay most. The incentive is that authors retain copyright on their work and everything published is available ungated and immediately."

Link:

http://amanwithaphd.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/open-access-peer-review-in-30-days-sliding-scale-publication-fee-the-future-of-science-journals/

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

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Date tagged:

09/19/2013, 11:54

Date published:

09/19/2013, 07:54