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Our journal is Congo Research Papers. We are a peer review and open access journal. We would like to know if we can be indexed.
Dear researchers. If we want to publish a paper in a hybrid-type journal and choose the non-open access option (for subscribers only), is it literally free, or is there still a possibility of paying a less charge than APC in their open access option? How can we identify it?
Dear friends, I am looking for indexed journals to publish a review paper on shifting cultivation with an emphasis on the northeast region of India. Would you kindly suggest journals where I can submit my paper? A journal that charges for only for making the paper open access would be even better. Thank you in advance.
I am interested in sharing preprints for externally funded projects to provide open access and am wondering about the impact on the peer review process. Specifically, at what point should preprints be posted? Do preprints impact the peer review process (potential reviewers unable to complete a "blind review")? Can copyright issues arise (potentially self plagiarism as the work is previously published)? Thank you for any insight into the preprint process.
Dear researchers
In my subject, I work on the characterization of the Moroccan marine microbiota by metagenomics under the discipline of microbial ecology.
During the sampling, we could not have all the in situ measurements of the Physico-chemical parameters of the studied microbiome. That's why we had recourse to the extraction of spatial data from the NASA website to complete.
my question is: do we have the right to combine our own data with those of a database to analyze them? ethical and copyright aspects. since these data are submitted to the public with open access.
I recently discovered that many open access advocates are publishing their work on open access in paid journals. Is it justified or fair enough that a researcher working on open access and advocating its immediate application across the globe is publishing their own open access research in pay-walled journals? What is your opinion in this regard?
Dear colleagues,
We are preparing a paper on climate change and migration, and have some budget earmarked for open access fees. However, the money needs to be spent in this calendar year. The journal we wanted to submit to can only send an invoice after the article has been accepted. And it usually takes a while before the reviews are in and the revision done. Hence my question: Does anyone know a suitable journal (topic-wise and with good impact) that allows paying open access fee before an article is accepted? Or does anybody have other advice that can be of use here?
Thank you and best wishes
Kees
Dear researchers
In my subject, I work on the characterization of the Moroccan marine microbiota by metagenomics under the discipline of microbial ecology.
During the sampling, we could not have all the in situ measurements of the Physico-chemical parameters of the studied microbiome. That's why we had recourse to the extraction of spatial data from the NASA website to complete.
my question is: do we have the right to combine our own data with those of a database to analyze them? ethical and copyright aspects. since these data are submitted to the public with open access.
Could some one help me and share the word two column template for the applied eenrgy journal open access
Wiley Open Access Journal Charges. Check out the attachment.
My question is why do they have categories in open access as well?
1) Gold Open Access
2) Green Open Access
Respected RG members,
I'm interested in free-to-publish and open-access journals. It would be great if there any Scopus indexed journals.
Thank you for your answers
Hi!
I work with antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. I am considering Open Access journals to publish my next manuscript and I wonder if JoF is a good Journal.
I appreciate your help.
All the best!
Could you share your experiences publishing in open access journals in animal science and animal husbandry sector, which are your favorite, and why?
Dear All,
I want to know the fastest publishing journals especially from submission to the notification of acceptance in the electrical engineering field in the certified Scopus list and not be fully open access.
I am grateful in advance.
What's the frequent license chosen by you all for publication if allowed to choose? Rationale?
CC- BY
CC-BY- NC
CC-BY-NC-ND
- Nowadays, there are many databases available in the different subject domains. Some of them are Multidisciplinary, and some of them are subject specifics. It plays a significant role in the academic and in R & D. In this way, I wanted to know about the Open access databases available for Agriculture Science Subjects.
I am writing a review paper. In my paper, can I use figures from "open access" journals/articles etc provided I cite them properly? (i.e. without have to go for requesting permission for using). Also, is there any way to obtain permission to use already published figures without incurring cost?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
Please list Zero Author Publication Fee charging journals in pharmacology subject which are indexed in Pubmed or Scopus or Science Index or Medline or Central Science Citation Index, or Science Citation Index, or Expanded Embase, Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journals (DoAJ)
I need to simulate Lenticular Lenses to observe their behavior in presence of light. So can anyone suggest some open-access software for this observation?
#optics #simulation #ray
Regards,
Siddhi Vinayak Pandey
DSE-SOT, PDEU - Gandhinagar, India
Dear Colleagues,
Is it necessary to get permission for reuse of figures that are published in "open access journals"?
Best regards,
Parisa
Hello,
Is there any point clouds dataset for railway asset classification? Or are some network's weights pre-trained on such a dataset? to date, there are no datasets available in open access for this purpose.
Thank you.
The journal should be related to agricultural science.
Could you kindly share some free open access scopus indexed journals Q3 and Q4 , please?
Research areas: Applied linguistics, psychology, and language issues
Note: Both journals are Elsevier and Scopus Index, although, the open-access is new, free for now (No APC) and it's a companion journal to high IF journal
I would like to add the density function theory to the adsorption study. Those who work on this issue recommend Gaussian software about it. However, I have no knowledge about this. Is there any online open-access course on this subject ? Also, is there anyone who can help me with this software? Could it also be colloborate? Thanks in advance.
Where can the researchers aquire the open-access dataset of datacenter energy comsumption?
Dear all,
I am looking for positive and negative mood induction through short films (preferably an open access database?). Meta-analysis recommends that short films are the most effective method of positive and negative mood induction. Does anyone please have some short films to share, preferable in German or with no words.
Could you please recommend a good Q1/Q2/Q3 journal in the Electromagnetic/Antenna/Wireless communication field that does not charge publication fees?
I have written a comprehensive survey and I wish to communicate it to SCI journal but most of the journals are open access. Kindly suggest some journals.
That would be really helpful..!!
What are the most important enabling technologies for Industry 4.0?
Can you provide links to open access papers that provide a quality survey on the topic?
Should premier institutions open up their doors to open access education?
In the wake of Covid 19 since last two years, we have seen a complete paradigm shift in the teaching learning methodology.
Do you think that now as most of the teaching learning is happening online, the premier universities and colleges open up their programmes for the larger audience and wider student base?
I don't know if this was already asked or not, but I thought I'd give it a try. How do you guarantee your research reaches more audience? What if it is not a generic topic that has similar previous applications? How do citations work (Other than keyword-ing and finding similar topics online and in journals)? What constitutes a great work if the audience of the paper(s) is only a handful of people? Does it have to be one of the very well-known journals to get highly cited (from your experience)?
Please share.
Dear Researchers
I have completed two manuscripts on SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately, I do not have any grant or any other source of funds that can pay the APC. In this circumstance, I want to submit my manuscript to those journals which are free but open access. Can you recommend that?
Thank you all in advance.
I am constantly barraged with requests to upload "my" published manuscripts to this site, as well as individual messages from members here for the same. It is usually wrong to oblige because the journal has the copyright, even for manuscripts that are over 20 years old. Don't get me wrong here, I'm an advocate for the open journal movement so that "non- affiliated" scientists with no affordable access to journals can have access to academia and continue to work as professional scientists, rather than Starbuck baristas while illegitimate (non-peer-reviewed) information reigns for free on the internet. BUT, we're not there yet. For my own promotional purposes, I would like nothing more than to fulfil these requests for my publications. It was a rude awakening to discover that I don't even have the legal right to send pdf's to colleagues through email. I'm old enough to remember the "50 complimentary pre-prints" that you were allowed give or snail mail to colleagues, but not much has changed: there's a paywall for every one of my papers. Until those go away, I cannot / will not upload papers here.
Let's broaden the discussion for open access journals to include the major "name brand" journals in each field, rather than having to take chances with the new upstart "open access" journals.
Dear Researchers in evidence synthesis,
We are mostly dependent on Google Scholar, PubMed, and Cochrane only for our search to cater and include the studies. How much of the total health sciences records are covered by these engines? What are the others available open access? Can we add ClinicalTrials.gov as an engine?
Is there any AI-related (mainly NLP, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning based) journal where I can submit short papers? It should be non-open access.
Hello everyone,
I would like to download spectral data for satellite images. Please is there available source for obtaining the datasets easily such as NDVI, EVI, WI, SAVI,......etc, without downloading the images and processing?.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Ahmed
After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms. https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plan_S.pdf
What is your opinion?
Trying to make a list of non för profit journals. I mean journals with no APC. Do you know any?
My list so far
- International journal of health policy and management @IJHPM
- Global health, sience and practice @GHSPJournal
- Nordic journal of migration research @njmr_journal
I am writing a review paper and I want to use a figure from the paper published in AWS. AWS articles can be accessed without any subscription means it is a kind of open access. In addition, there is no such link "using RightsLink" "Get rights and content" available on the main page of the publisher. I have already requested the authors for the permission. What should I do now?
Do I need permission if my figure/figures are taken from Open Access articles?
Please share your experience.
Regards
Dr. Jaivindra
I have been asked to submit a paper on a special issue of Genes- MDPI. The impact factor of the journal is showing to be 3.4 but I saw conflicting articles about the MDPI journals being a predatory one. Though the editor of the issue is a reputed person in the field, I am bit confused about the journal in general. What are your thoughts?
Dear friends, I've prepared several papers to publish but because of the relatively high fees to publish in Open Access journals, and regarding my limited budget to do this, I decided to look for some lower fee or free of charge journals to publish my manuscripts as soon as possible. So I'll be so grateful if anybody can suggest me journals in the fields mentioned above.
Gray literature vs. scientific literature
-What are the advantages and disadvantages of gray literature compared to scientific literature.
-What are the repositories that you know about gray literature.
-What is the importance of gray literature for developing countries
Gray literature is "materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common gray literature publication types include reports (annual, research, technical, project, etc.), working papers, government documents, white papers and evaluations"
Scientific literature "comprises scholarly publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and social sciences. Within an academic field, scientific literature is often referred to as the literature. Academic publishing is the process of contributing the results of one's research into the literature, which often requires a peer-review process".
In my opinion, An article-processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee poses an obstacle for Academic Studies. Because the most important making-known activity of your research and its importance, results etc is turning it into a publication and publishing it in a good journal. But if you do not have funding or enough money to cover the APC charge (which is really high sometimes) an article that is already submitted, already accepted can wait even more than 2 years for publication without open access. This should not be like that if scientific works really matter in this world. Additionally, it's really sad to see even publish an article in a good journal turn into a business.
On the other hand, the journal is making an agreement with authors about in case if they share full-version in any academic platform to make it available for other authors they can not publish an article in any other open-access journal for the upcoming 2 years.
I have an article about #femaleimmigrantenterprenurship that got accepted nearly 2 years ago and I and co-authors are still waiting for the publication because it's not open-access due to APC. This is just unfair and damages the scientific works. if you have such an experience too and what you think about it please do not hesitate to raise a voice, it's vital importance.
I have recently published an article in a Taylor & Francis journal. The journal asked me to pay more than 3000USD to make the article open access and post on RG and other platforms. I was shocked by that demand. The article is currently under a paywall and people cannot access it unless I share the PDF with them. As far as I know, this is a common practice by Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Sage, Wiley, Emerald, and so on.
I would love to hear what the RG community thinks about this type of practice.
For the purpose of an analysis of the effects of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, I would like to know if it is possible to get data such as: number of daily tests, number of confirmed cases, number of hospitalizations, number of recoveries, number of deaths, measures taken by the government, etc. Thanks.
Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization (JIMO) is an open access journal. You pay a substantial amount to publish a paper. When you go to the website of its publisher, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS Press), it seems that it is not really based in the United States. I am not sure if it is a legitimate professional organization or if it is a predatory publisher. They have a large number of open access journals. On the other hand, their handling of papers is terrible: extremely slow and low-tech, which is not typical for predatory journals. It may take 13 months to get an editorial rejection, for instance. Furthermore, they don't have an online submission system with user profiles on it, you just submit the paper on a website, and they give you a URL to check your paper's status, which makes your submission open to anyone who has the URL. It has an impact factor of 1.3, which makes me puzzled. Any comments on this organization and the journal will be appreciated.
A journal has accepted my paper which has multiple indexing including google scholar and is open access. But it ain't scopus indexed. Does that make the journal less desirable or credible?
Why do the journals (mostly energy related) under MDPI do not considerably have high impact factors despite of their open access tags?
Are the credentials of Open Access and non-Open Access journals equal (provided that the impact factor and .... the parameters of the two journals are exactly the same)
I have been interested in research since the beginning of my university life. My first research paper was accepted in an open access journal (Q3, Scopus indexed) when I was a last year student. Since then I have published 4 journal papers (all are open access journals, scopus indexed, between Q2-Q3, cite scores > 3).
But, now-a-days, I have often heard that the value/quality of open access journal is low. However, there are plenty of open access journals that are scopus indexed as well as in Q1 - Q4 with good cite scores. My question is : " Are open access journals really low in quality?. If so, why? If no, what would be the justification?
Reputed journals like Nature, Scientific Reports, PlosOne, BMC series few Springer, Elsevier Journals are all charging hefty amounts from authors just to put their reseach open access,
Its only a pdf to be put online
Mo printing charges
No formatting charges
Hello everyone, I am interested in patent strategy cases for Amazon sellers - reports, articles with open access, etc. The copyright strategies are interesting as well, but not case studies regarding trademarks.
I am looking for research articles that either discuss or propose the design of a critical component of image encryption algorithms and their implementations, specifically s-boxes. Can you provide links to 2022 open access articles on S-box construction?
Here is one such example:
Peer-reviewed (refereed or scholarly) journals - Articles are authored by specialists and vetted by numerous other experts in the subject before being published in the journal to assure the quality of the article. (The paper has a better chance of being scientifically sound, reaching reasonable findings, and so on.)
Because they have gone through the most rigorous review process, articles from scientific, peer-reviewed, academic, and refereed publications are more reputable than those from popular or trade journals ('magazines'). They also have the highest number of references or citations.
Do you think that the free access to information resources in countries that do not have deterrent laws may pose a risk to the intellectual property rights of the researchers themselves?
Why? And why not?
Do you think that the free access to information resources in countries that do not have deterrent laws may pose a risk to the intellectual property rights of the researchers themselves?Why? And why notDo you think that free access to information sources poses a threat to the intellectual property rights of researchers themselves?
It is the link of a beneficial Q&A page with more than 320 answer by RG colleagues.
Hello
I have been contacted about publishing with this journal . But it seems a bit strange to me . I know it’s open access but it was also hard to find papers online from it. Can you help ?
Thanks
Evan
Have you any suggestions !!
My research articles are published in Scopus indexed journals which are not an open access, but in my Scopus profile it is showing that the articles are open access. Can anybody please tell me the reason and can it be corrected?
Nowadays, there is a trend to change most journals towards completely open access.
Is open access an advantage or disadvantage for a published article and its author?
Does this harm the value of the published article and its author?
The pros and cons of scientific journals with Open Access.
What is the best open access journal for a pediatric nutrition manuscript...?
Any past experience?
I want to publish an article related to groundwater analysis using geospatial techniques. Can anyone suggest me to find out suitable open access journal that does not have any article processing charges.
I have designed and modeled a wastewater treatment plant recently. I want to publish my work in an open-access journal. I found many journals which accepts original, experimental research work. Can anyone share a me a journal which accepts these types of paper and does fast peer-review process. Thank you.
has anyone already deal with lambert academic publishing before ? what is their reputation ? do you thing it is a good choice to deal with this publisher ?
Hi guys,
I am looking for suggestions/recommendations from the research community regarding public databases that are most commonly used by researchers in their analysis.
Just like GEO, GTex, TCGA, Gnomad, TopMed etc, even databases from other countries besides US.
#genomics #publicdata #genomicdatabases #databases #datamining #TCGA #HCA #GTEX #GEO #ARRAYEXPRESS
I have decided to use Postgre sql for database and geoserver as middleware. I am a bit confused in selecting the software to design the GUI for the client side. I am a novice programmer, so will geoexplorer be a good option or are there some other tools which can be easily customized for my work?
Hi all,
I would appreciate any experience-based input on free software tools to analyze proteomics data. I have read the theoretical basis but no hands-on experience...
Thanks in advance
hello. Could anyone suggest a software (in open access if possible) capable to simulate and identify electric network problems in interconnecting building systems. Thanks in advance.