... published by a commercial publisher, open access journals are freely available online to the public. There are no charges or subscription fees to readers or their institutions. And, most open access journals are peer reviewed or undergo editorial quality ... print editions and increase the visibility and impact of their journals by making them freely available online. They rely on business ...

... company Elsevier. Elsevier also publishes many well-respected journals, such as the Journal of Pediatrics and the Journal of Urology. Turns ... agencies, such as the NIH and NSF. Despite this, the closed-access journals take copyright ownership of work when published, and they block free public access. Further, the closed-access journals can prevent the published scientist from distributing the work ...

... interest by researchers. The requirements will go beyond existing disclosure rules at many medical journals to include items such as financial relationships involving spouses, partners or minor ... over the next several months. By standardizing what researchers report to different medical journals, the editors are attempting to address complaints about the existing system for disclosing conflicts ...

... .O. Box 12183 Glendale, AZ 85318  USA Here’s the backstory for the journals, for those of you who are worried about contributing to them: If you signed up to add to a journal, you will still get ... ’t always happy to hear from me. Some of them changed their minds about contributing and handed the journals to friends who weren’t on the list. People on the list didn’t want to ...

... of Science) it seems appropriate to check the Directory of Open Access Journals for titles in the earth sciences. Here's the subject breakdown ... journal titles in the DOAJ: Geography (52 journals) Geology (66 journals) Geophysics and Geomagnetism (9 journals) Meteorology and Climatology (20 journals) Oceanography (21 journals) Advances in Geosciences from the European Geosciences Union ...

... journal (alas not an open access journal, and not my first choice of journals, but the paper will be published under a CC license ...more on this in another post ) Anyway ... citation indexing systems. But this is something they need to solve. And until then, people should be aware that by publishing in such journals you may indirectly be doing a disservice to the people whose work contributed to ...