Flexible (subsidiaries) models for funding open access in journal publishing

Project Name URL Goal License Model Comment
Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org/ PLOS ONE aims to publish
(PLoS)
and make freely available
academic papers to a
global audience. PLOS
ONE articles are
completely free to access,
and indexed by Google,
PubMed, Scopus, Web of
Science and many more -
making them easy to find,
read and cite. Every article
published by PLOS ONE is
thoroughly assessed by an
Academic Editor and an
average of 2 reviewers
drawn from an expert
global network. In
addition, PLOS ONE
upholds the highest
international standards for
research ethics,
publication ethics, and
scientific reporting.
PLOS applies the Creative
Commons Attribution (CC
BY) license to all works we
publish (read the human-readable
summary or the
full license legal code).
Under the CC BY license,
authors retain ownership
of the copyright for their
article, but authors allow
anyone to download,
reuse, reprint, modify,
distribute, and/or copy
articles in PLOS journals,
so long as the original
authors and source are
cited. No permission is
required from the authors
or the publishers.
To provide Open Access,
PLOS uses a business
model to offset
expenses—including those
of peer review
management, journal
production and online
hosting and archiving—by
charging a publication fee
to the authors, institutions
or funders for each article
published. Publication fees
vary by journal and are
payable for articles upon
acceptance. PLOS believes
that lack of funds should
not be a barrier to Open
Access publication. Since
its inception, PLOS has
provided individual fee
support and institutional
fee support programs. The
current offering includes:
PLOS Global Participation
Initiative (Low- and
Middle-Income Country
Assistance). Authors'
research which is funded
primarily (50% or more of
the work contained within
the article) by an
institution or organization
from eligible low- and
middle-income countries
will receive partial (group
2 countries) or full (group
1 countries) fee funding
Public Library of Science
(PLoS) is often held up as
an example of the suc-cess
of this model. It can
afford to be a quick turn
around, high impact
publication. It is strongly
subsidized by US Federal
Government and other
grants not available to
small niche scientific
publishers. They don't
really give anything away
that hasn’t been paid for
by some other means.
source:
http://www.wildlifediseas
e.org/wda/Portals/0/Janu
ary2012Newsletter.pdf
Flexible (subsidiaries) models for funding open access journal publishing
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paid by the PLOS Global
Participation Initiative
(GPI). Group 2 PLOS GPI
country authors who need
to request additional
support should apply for
PLOS Publication Fee
Assistance instead of the
PLOS GPI.
PLOS Publication Fee
Assistance (PFA) is
intended for authors who
demonstrate financial
need. Information about
an applicant's application
status for fee assistance
will not be disclosed to
journal editors or
reviewers. PLOS
publication decisions will
continue to be based
solely on editorial criteria.
PLOS Institutional Fee
Support Program: PLOS
currently offers an
institutional program to
support Open Access
scientific publishing.
Participating institutions
have arrangements with
PLOS to administer
payment for full
publication fees for their
institutions' authors. To be
eligible, authors must be a
corresponding author
affiliated with the
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institution or agency in the
Institutional Account
Program (fully paid or
restricted). (Special note
to UK authors — certain
institutions will restrict
payment to cover for
Wellcome Trust and RCUK
research grant recipients
only.) Authors who need
to request additional
support should apply for
PLOS PFA.
Additional External Funds:
Authors may also be
eligible for direct funding
from their institution or
funder, which may be
different from the PLOS
Institutional program. See
additional Open Access
funds for examples.
Payment is due when
PLOS accepts the article
for publication (PLOS ONE
$1,350 USD)
http://www.plos.org/publi
cations/publication-fees/
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Ubiquity Press http://www.ubiquitypress.
com/site/about/
Ubiquity Press is an open
access publisher of peer-reviewed,
academic
journals. Their flexible
publishing model makes
journals and books
affordable, and enables
researchers around the
world to find and access
the information they
need, without barriers.
All Ubiquity Press content
is released under open
licenses from Creative
Commons. They believe
that only CC BY meets the
requirements for true
open access for books and
journals, and strongly
prefer CC0 for open
research data. They
support the Budapest
Open Access Initiative, as
well as the Panton
Principles, which state
that "for science to
effectively function, and
for society to reap the full
benefits from scientific
endeavours, it is crucial
that science data be made
open."
All content published by
Ubiquity Press is made
freely available online. The
costs of publication -
including peer review,
production, and archiving -
are paid for by article
processing charges (APCs).
In general it is expected
that the cost of
publication to be covered
by an author’s institution
or funder, but where
appropriate they waive or
reduce APCs to ensure
cost is not a barrier to
publication.
Ubiquity Press works with
Open Access Key (OAK) to
administer the APC. On
publication of the article,
OAK emails the author to
request payment; if the
author is from an
institution with which OAK
already has a relationship,
then OAK will contact the
institution fund manager
in the first instance, and
the author may not be
involved in the payment
process. [The Open Access
Key is a new financial
platform to manage,
consolidate and process
publication fees incurred
in Open Access Publishing.
Ubiquity Press
(@ubiquitypress), a small
new London-based digital
publisher of peer
reviewed, open-access
academic journals. Unlike
many traditional
publishers, Ubiquity only
takes payment for the
service of publication,
rather than taking over
the rights to research and
then selling access to it.
We publish 100% open
access and charge low,
optional APCs (article
processing charges) that
are therefore no
impediment. We also form
partnerships to support
smaller presses, especially
those in developing
countries, to ensure that
there are avenues to
publishing for researchers
there. We do have article
processing charges (APCs),
but we don’t expect
authors to have to pay
these in most
circumstances, as these
should be picked up by
their funders or
institutions. This is
essentially the same for
both books and journals.
The developing country
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It has been designed to
reduce time, effort and
expenditure and to
connect individual authors
to their universities,
researcher funders and
learned societies. The
platform aims to engage,
advice and guidance from
all participants in OA
Publishing.
Source:openaccesskey.co
m]
and student journals we
publish have no
APCshttp://chronicle.com/
blogs/profhacker/ubiquity
/43312
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PeerJ https://peerj.com PeerJ considers
submissions of Research
Articles in the Biological
and Medical Sciences.
PeerJ provides academics
with two Open Access
publication venues: PeerJ
(a peer-reviewed
academic journal) and
PeerJ PrePrints (a 'pre-print
server').
PeerJ publish all content
under the prevailing CC-BY
licence (currently 4.0).
This is the same license
used by other major Open
Access publishers (such as
PLoS or BioMedCentral,
for example). Anyone who
re-uses the published
content must attribute the
author(s) and the original
source, but otherwise they
are free to re-use it as
they see fit. This license
meets all definitions of
‘true’ Open Access, and
complies with any
institutional or funder OA
mandates that may exist.
In PeerJ authors can pay
for themselves, a few, or
all of the co-authors in a
single payment (once they
have submitted their
manuscript). Plans
purchased through this
form can only be applied
to authors with an
accepted manuscript if the
purchase occurred before
that paper was accepted.
Authors who choose to
pay for a publishing plan
at submission get the
cheapest rates, authors
can choose to submit for
'free' and pay only once
accepted - in that instance
their publication rates are
slightly higher. The PeerJ
base model is for authors
to get a publishing plan on
or before submission.
PeerJ also allow people to
submit for free. However,
in that instance they need
to pay after final
acceptance and before
final publication. If an
author pay for a publishing
plan at time of submission
then you get the cheapest
rates available (for
example, $99 for the Basic
plan), but if the author
choose to submit for free
It's easy to forget that
technological revolutions
also demand business
model revolutions. I was
really struck by PeerJ's
business model, which
seems to have a deep
insight into the real
motivations of
researchers, and could
provide a truly new
approach to science
publishing. One example
of an altered model is the
“author membership”
model, perhaps most
prominently exemplified
by the new journal PeerJ.
Under the “author
membership” model, the
author pays a fee to be a
member of the journal,
and that fee gives the
member publishing
privileges. In the case of
PeerJ, there are levels of
membership that allow for
one, two, or unlimited
publications per year,
depending on the level of
membership that is paid.
Under this model, the fee
for membership is lower
than many APCs, and,
once paid, there is no
further monetary cost to
publish. The only further
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and pay only upon
acceptance then s/he will
pay an additional
premium of $40. If the
paper gets rejected the
author can get a refund of
80% of whatever was paid.
(Basic at $99; Enhanced at
$199; Unlimited at $299).
PeerJ offer a no questions
asked fee waiver, on
request, to anyone from
countries that are
classified by the World
Bank as Low-income
economies. The waiver
simply applies to the
publication in question,
and is not a waiver for a
full publishing plan. PeerJ
only allow one waiver per
person per year. Many
estimates put the average
cost of an article in a
subscription-based journal
at $5,333 ($US). And the
most popular Open Access
journals still charge more
than $1,300 per article.
One way or another these
costs come out of money
that could be going to
research.
obligation on the author is
to commit to commenting
on or peer reviewing the
submissions of other
authors.
[http://crln.acrl.org/conte
nt/75/5/240]
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Open Library of Humanitie https://www.openlibhums A peer-reviewed open
access, internationally
supported, academic led
and high quality mega-journal,
multi-journal,
overlay-journal & books
platform for the
humanities.It provides a
huge online repository of
peer-reviewed articles
that shows off the best in
research from around the
world in a way that’s fully
and publicly accessible.
The Open Library of
Humanities aims to
provide a platform for
Open Access publishing
that is: Reputable and
respected through
rigorous peer review;
Sustainable; Digitally
preserved and safely
archived in perpetuity;
Non-profit; Open in both
monetary and permission
terms; Non-discriminatory
to authors (collectively
funded through a Library
Partnership Subsidies
model); Technically
innovative in response to
the needs of scholars and
librarians.
Everything published in
the OLH and its journals is
free for the reader to
access. All material is to be
licensed under a Creative
Commons license of the
author's choosing.
OLH is based on a subsidy
model that is piloting
costings, labour needs,
infrastructure
requirements and
potential revenue
streams. It is non-profit
and open in both
monetary and permission
terms. It gives free access
under a creative commons
licence and sets out to
provide a resource for
scholars and librarians to
digitally preserve and
archive work permanently
and for everyone. It
launched a campaign
asking scholars to Pledge
to Publish a paper with
OLH within its first year.
Scholars who so pledge
and don’t have
institutional support will
have any fees, yet to be
determined, waived. The
OLH model of
sustainability takes its cue
from the previously
successful efforts of the
Public Library of Science (a
non-profit organization
dedicated to publishing
excellent, thoroughly peer
reviewed scientific
research under Open
Access conditions at a
A forthcoming peer-reviewed
open access,
internationally supported,
academic led and high
quality mega-journal,
multi-journal, overlay-journal
& books platform
for the humanities.
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financially fair rate).
Article Processing Charge-funded
Open Access
mega-journal (no
disciplinary bounds, no
subject categorisation but
peer review is still
performed by disciplinary
specialists), non-profit
entity that works only to
sustain itself. In the case
of an author being unable
to pay, PLOS waive their
charges.
As known, the majority of
research in the humanities
remains unfunded except
through institutional time.
For this reason, Article
Processing Charges are
not a palatable option for
these disciplines. OLH
propose instead a model
of Library Partnership
Subsidies to collectively
fund the venue and its
array of overlay
journals.The current level
of Article Processing
Charges makes gold OA
publishing unaffordable
for the majority of
unfunded humanities
scholars. The OLH aims
instead to implement a
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collaborative, or
collective, funding model
for gold open access in the
humanities. When many
libraries band together, it
becomes possible to
support large-scale open
access infrastructures at a
far cheaper rate when
compared with closed
access subscription
mechanisms and direct
article processing charges.
OLH proposed a Library
Partnership Subsidy (LPS).
The economies of scale
that are achieved can be
staggering. To fund an
operation publishing 250
articles and 12 books in
partnership with
reputable presses per
year, we need a banded
average of just $700 from
500 libraries. If 1000
libraries participated, this
cost is lowered to $350.
On the $700 rate that's a
cost to each library of
$2.80 per article.
This becomes cheaper
with every library that
joins. In this way there will
be no Article Processing
Charges for authors. This
is the way to end the
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serials crisis, not by
transitioning to a straight
supply-side rate at the
cost levied by many
commercial publishers.
The official launch is
expected for early 2015.
[https://www.openlibhum
s.org/wp-content/
uploads/LPS.pdf]
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http://www.co-action.net Co-Action Publishing is an iCo-Action Publishing is an
Co-Action Publishing
Open Access scholarly
publisher. All content
published by Co-Action
Publishing is made freely
accessible immediately
upon publication, without
restriction, under licenses
that provide for liberal re-use.
Authors contributing
to Co-Action Publishing
titles agree to publish
their articles either under
the Creative Commons
Attribution-
NonCommercial 3.0
Unported license (CCNC),
or the Creative Commons
Attribution license (CCBY).
According to both, authors
agree to allow third
parties to share their work
(copy, distribute, transmit)
and to adapt it, under the
condition that the authors
are given credit, and that
in the event of reuse or
distribution, the terms of
this license are made
clear. In the case of the
CCNC, re-use excludes
commercial use in the
case of reprints or
permission to reproduce
an article in a publication
intended for commercial
sales. Authors retain
offers publishing services
for supplements as well as
for other types of
monographs (e.g.
festschrift, dissertations,
conference or meeting
proceedings, etc.).
Following their Open
Access policy, the author's
publication will be
published in an Open
Access online edition for
the widest possible
dissemination under the
same license as the
journal it is published in. A
paper edition of the
author's publication can
also be produced at a low
price, to be delivered to a
specified location or event
accordingly. The pproject
funded by the Swedish
Royal Library to develop a
best practices guide to
open access journal
publishing.
For commercially-sponsored
publications,
both published and
electronic advertising
spaces are available. Co-
Action Publishing
cooperate with sponsors
to meet their particular
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copyright of their work,
with first publication
rights granted to Co-
Action Publishing. In the
case of the CCNC license,
authors are required to
transfer copyrights
associated with
commercial use to the
Publisher. Co-Action
Publishing strongly
encourages authors to
post the final version of
their articles in all relevant
repositories, to relevant
websites and to share with
colleagues.
promotion requests.
Books and some journal
articles in the Co-Action
Publishing portfolio are
published under the
Creative Commons
Attribution-
NonCommercial 3.0
Unported license.
Commercial rights to
published work are
exercised by Co-Action
Publishing.
In addition to selling
reprints of single articles
Co-Action Publishing is
happy to create a tailor-made
package of reprints
if the author is interested,
combining articles from
several journals (and/or
chapters from books)
within a certain area or
speciality. Co-Action
Publishing recognizes
electronic display
advertising revenue as a
legitimate source of
financial support for
publications. Co-Action
Publishing abide by the
following guidelines when
approving advertising:
No advertiser may
influence or attempt to
influence editorial
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decisions.
Advertisements shall
contain no references to
specific pharmaceutical
products or medical
devices but may refer to
company philosophy or
community message.
Advertisements shall be
placed on general
information pages for a
journal, and not in
conjunction with
individual published
articles.
Advertising opportunities
and their administration
are handled solely by Co-
Action Publishing.
All advertisers agree to
abide by all applicable
laws and relevant ethical
standards.
reserves the right to
refuse advertising from
any business or
organization.
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African Journals OnLine (A http://www.ajol.info/ African Journals OnLine
(AJOL) is an online service
to provide access to
African-published
research, and increase
worldwide knowledge of
indigenous scholarship.
AJOL is a Non Profit
Organisation based in
South Africa. AJOL is the
world's largest online
collection of African-published,
peer-reviewed
scholarly journals. AJOL's
Vision is for African
learning to be translated
into African development.
AJOL's Mission: to increase
online visibility, access and
use of African-published
research output in support
of quality African research
and higher education.
AJOL provides free hosting
for over 400 peer-reviewed
journals from 30
African countries, using
the internet and open
source software. AJOL's
partner journals cover the
full range of academic
disciplines with
particularly strong
sections on health and
agriculture.
Open Access (OA), defined
most simply, means free
full text online. There are
over 130 Open Access
journals hosted on the
AJOL websit. This (OA)
symbol is found next to all
the ‘Open Access’ (OA)
titles indexed on AJOL.
Open Access means the
articles do not have a
charge on them and are
therefore free for anyone
to download. The full-texts
of these articles are
available on either the
AJOL website or the
journal’s own website.
Please note that open
access does not mean it
has no copyright.
AJOL allows for free access
to thousands of article
abstracts, and offers a
progressively charged
article download service
for researchers and
librarians to access full
text of individual articles.
Libraries may open a pre-paid
article download
account with AJOL. This
makes it easier for
students and staff to get
full text from the AJOL
subscription-based
journals - open access
journals have full text
online for free. Access to
individual articles via AJOL
pre-paid accounts is
through a password or by
our software
automatically picking up IP
range, at the choice of the
institution. All rates are
discounted and depend on
the number of articles
requested. Low Income
Country Educational
Institution Libraries: Quota
of a maximum of 12 free
articles per month. If that
is routinely reached, the
library is encouraged to
purchase a pre-paid
bundle at Lower Middle
Income Country rates to
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augment the quota. Lower
Middle Income Country
$1,875 ($7.50 per article)
and a High Income
Country: $6,000 for 250
articles ($24.00 per
article*). There is no time
restriction. Over half the
income from article
downloads is returned to
the originating journals,
and the remainder is used
as partial cost-recovery by
AJOL to allow the service
to continue.
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SCOAP3 consortium http://scoap3.org/ The SCOAP3 aims to reach
consensus among all
stakeholders on a new
model for publishing in
high-energy physics, and
establish market
equilibrium. The
institution-specific return
on investment in SCOAP3
is expected to be the
containment of costs
required to access HEP
literature, along with:
A transparent view of the
costs of peer-review,
editing, and article
dissemination.
An opportunity to contain
the costs of HEP
publishing.
A more complete
electronic information
environment to support
the needs of HEP research
and beyond.
A closer relationship with
the worldwide research
community to effect
positive change in
scholarly publishing.
A demonstration of how
international cooperation
can support the
advancement of
sustainable Open Access
to research.
Concrete data on the
Articles are Open Access,
the copyright stays with
the authors, permissive
CC-BY license allow text-and
data-mining
applications. This
automatically addresses
funding-agencies or
universities Open Access
mandates. At no cost for
authors. Articles are Open
Access, the copyright stays
with the authors,
permissive CC-BY license
allow text- and data-mining
applications.
SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind
partnership of
thousands of libraries and
key funding agencies and
research centers in three
dozen countries. Working
with leading publishers,
SCOAP3 has converted key
journals in the field of
High-Energy Physics to
Open Access at no cost for
authors. SCOAP3 is
centrally paying publishers
for the costs involved in
providing Open Access,
publishers in turn reduce
subscription fees to all
their customers, who can
contribute to SCOAP3.
Each country participate in
a way commensurate to
its scientific output in this
field. SCOAP3, the
Sponsoring Consortium for
Open Access in Particle
Physics Publishing,
proposes an innovative
economic model to
achieve Open Access to
peer-reviewed literature
in high-energy physics
(HEP). The model seeks to,
(using current funding
levels as a starting point),
redirect subscription
expenditures to ensure
open access and work to
The most successful and
well-known of this model
is the SCOAP3 consortium
in which most of the major
journals in a specific field
(in this case, high-energy
physics) participate in OA
publishing. Under the
terms of the SCOAP3
consortium agreement,
the participating journals
agreed to begin publishing
all articles OA, and, in
turn, all of the
subscription costs are
prorated for consortial
members. The authors
bear no cost of the
funding.
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viability of a unique Open
Access publishing model
that can inform the
evolution of future
potential models.
The opportunity to
automatically populate
digital repositories with
Open Access peer-reviewed
material, or
create local archives of all
SCOAP3 material.
SCOAP3creates a viable
alternative to the status
quo in scholarly publishing
for one entire discipline.
contain costs - and in
doing so, achieve more
value than is possible
within a subscription-based
system.
The SCOAP3 model is the
product of extensive
consultation with all
stakeholders in scholarly
communication -- authors,
funding agencies, libraries
and publishers --
spearheaded by the
scientists and librarians at
CERN, the center of the
high-energy physics
community in Geneva,
which has been a leading
example of the unifying
power of international
collaboration in science.
CERN aims to transfer
HEP’s successful model for
consensus-building and
cooperation to the
scholarly communication
arena. Open Access is a
priority for the HEP
community. SCOAP3
proposes to create an
international consortium
of libraries and funding
agencies that will centrally
contract with publishers
for the services of
administering peer-review,
editing, and Open-
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Access article
dissemination. An open
tender or “bidding”
process will invite
publishers of HEP journals,
not-for-profit and
commercial alike, to
compete to provide these
services. This will replace
the current disaggregated
process, in which libraries
negotiate the cost of
access separately –
putting libraries back at
the center of scholarly
communication.
The tendering process is
an established practice in
the HEP community, as it
is in other large-scale
publicly funded industrial
procurements. It is guided
by the principles of
competition and will work
to link price with quality
and volume. These
variables are not explicitly
(or transparently) linked in
today’s scholarly
communication market.
The SCOAP3 initiative
relies on Expressions of
Interest from the
worldwide library
community to advance to
the next step. Once a
critical mass of interest
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from the international
community is established,
a governing board will be
formed to represent the
interests of all
participants. CERN will
provide the legal and
purchasing infrastructure
required to administer the
tendering process. The
governing board will invite
and assess bids from the
publishers and adjudicate
contracts, ensuring that
the requirements and
interests of member
libraries are met. Partner
libraries and consortia will
only formalize their
commitment to the
consortium through a
Memorandum of
Understanding once bids
have been reviewed and
accepted by the governing
board.
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eLife http://elifesciences.org eLife Sciences is a unique,
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practitioners of research
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important results are
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eLife is a peer-reviewed
open access scientific
journal for the biomedical
and life sciences. It was
sponsored by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute,
Max Planck Society, and
Wellcome Trust following
a workshop held in 2010
at the Janelia Farm
Research Campus. It was
established at the end of
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Charging authors APCs is
not the only business
model employed by OA
publishers. In recent years,
some new models have
emerged for generating
income to cover the costs
of producing a journal.
The journal eLife is an
example of funding
agencies moving beyond
support of existing
journals and setting up
their own OA publication.
eLife publication funds are
currently covered by the
funding agencies, the
journal may implement
APCs as part of a broader
sustainability plan in the
future.
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F1000Research http://f1000.com/ F1000Research is an open
access scientific journal
covering the life sciences.
An innovative open
science journal offering
rapid publication and
open peer review.
F1000Research is a
completely original Open
Science journal for life
scientists. It offers rapid
open access publication,
where articles are
published first and peer
reviewed after publication
by invited referees. The
peer reviewer names and
comments are visible on
the site as well as full data
deposition and sharing.
F1000Research accepts all
scientifically sound
articles, ranging from
single findings, case
reports, protocols,
replications, and null or
negative results to more
traditional research
articles and reviews. As
part of its open science
model, the data behind
each article are also
published and are
downloadable.
F1000Research publishes
multiple article types
including traditional
The Licenses that Apply to
Articles, Data and Referee
Reports: F1000Research
articles are usually
published under a CC BY
license, which permits
unrestricted use,
distribution, and
reproduction in any
medium, provided the
original work is properly
cited, and leaves the
copyright of the article
with the current copyright
holder (usually the author
or his/her institution).
Additional waivers are
used for some
governmental employees,
as appropriate. As the
specific version of the CC
BY license applied to
articles may change due to
periodic updates, the
copyright information for
each article is shown
below the abstract. Data
associated with
F1000Research articles are
made available, where
possible, under the terms
of a Creative Commons
Public Domain Dedication
(CC0 license). This
facilitates and encourages
data re-use and helps
prevent the problems of
The online publication
F1000 Research requires
submitters to pay an APC
for publication, but for
those who are members
of F1000 or are
participating peer
referees, a heavily
discounted APC is charged
upon publication. The
incentive to cash-strapped
authors, then, is to
participate in a community
hosted by a publishing
entity in exchange for a
reduced charge for OA
publication. Below are the
Article Processing Charges
(APCs) for F1000Research.
Research Articles; Method
Articles; Study Protocols;
Reviews; Systematic
Reviews (US $1000)
Clinical Practice Articles;
Software Tools;
Observation Articles;
Opinion Articles; Research
Notes US ($500) Data
Notes, Case Reports;
Correspondence (US $250)
The incentive to cash-strapped
authors, then, is
to participate in a
community hosted by a
publishing entity in
exchange for a reduced
charge for OA publication.
The journal has been
criticized for unclear peer-review
standards in
relation to its inclusion in
PubMed, but has since
clarified how articles are
indexed in the PubMed
and PubMed Central
databases.
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research articles, single
findings, case reports,
protocols, replications,
and null or negative
results.
attribution stacking when
combining multiple
datasets each authored by
multiple authors that use
multiple different licences.
By Cristóbal Cobo, phd (Oxford Internet Institute) v.01 November 2014 CC-BY
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