{"id":758,"date":"2018-08-16T03:52:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T03:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceansofbiodiversity.blogs.auckland.ac.nz\/?p=758"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:32:45","slug":"journals-free-to-authors-and-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/2018\/08\/16\/journals-free-to-authors-and-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free journals to authors and readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wave of open-access journals shifts the cost of access from readers to authors. The older former print-only publishers often charge authors over $2,000 or more per paper. Comparison with new scholarly journals who are also open-access but only charge authors $100’s to around $1,000 indicates these charges include a huge profit. This high cost may be justified if you are getting into a top-ranked journal (e.g. Impact Factor of 10 or more) but I suggest is not good value for typical specialist journals. Paying such high fees encourages such journals to charge them despite our universities already paying subscriptions to them (so-called double-dipping).
\nThe good news is there are excellent scholarly journals with prestigious editorial boards which are much lower cost, or become open access after some months (so those who pay a subscription get early free access), or are immediately free to authors and readers due to support from a research institute. Most of these have respectable impacts factors of over 1.
\nThe new Free Journal Network <\/a>initiative is encouraging the science community to support free to authors and readers journals. Listed journals are vetted by experts and pre-approve their listing.\u00a0If you know of well-established, scholarly, free-to-authors and open-access, journals please let info@freejournals.org<\/a> know.
\nHere are some good open access journals (and their supporting organisation) in the field of marine and\/or biodiversity science:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology<\/em><\/a> (Italian Association of Limnology and Oceanology)<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci\u00eancias<\/em>\u00a0(Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences)<\/a> is the official journal of\u00a0Academia Brasileira de Ci\u00eancias<\/a>\u00a0(Brazilian Academy of Sciences)<\/li>\n
  3. Animal Migration<\/a><\/em> (De Gruyter publisher)<\/li>\n
  4. Arquipelago, Life and Marine Sciences<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of the Azores)<\/li>\n
  5. Arthropoda Selecta<\/em><\/a> (KMK Scientific Press Ltd<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  6. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny<\/a> \u00a0(Senckenberg)<\/li>\n
  7. Atoll Research Bulletin<\/em><\/a> (Smithsonian, information for authors<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  8. Agua y Territorio \/ Water and Landscape (AYT \/ WAL)<\/a> (supported by Permanent Seminar Water, Territory and Environment, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, CSIC, and the University of Jaen)<\/li>\n
  9. Beche de Mer Bulletin<\/em><\/a> \u00a0(supported by\u00a0Australian Government, European Union, France and New Zealand Aid Programme)<\/li>\n
  10. Biological Communications<\/a> <\/em>(supported by Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)<\/li>\n
  11. Biodiversity Informatics<\/em> <\/a>(University of Kansas)<\/li>\n
  12. Biogeographia<\/em> – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography<\/a> (Italian Biogeography Society)<\/li>\n
  13. Blumea<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Naturalis)<\/li>\n
  14. Bonn Zoological Bulletin<\/em><\/a> (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig<\/span>, Germany)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. CIOH Scientific Bulletin<\/a><\/em> for oceanographic research (General Maritime Directorate (Dimar), Columbia)<\/li>\n
  16. Conservation and Society<\/em>\u00a0(<\/a>Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, ATREE)<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Current Science<\/em><\/a> (Current Science Association and the Indian Academy of Sciences)<\/li>\n
  18. Earth System Science Data<\/a> <\/em>(ESSD) (Copernicus Publisher)<\/li>\n
  19. Ecological Processes<\/a> (<\/em>Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)<\/li>\n
  20. ERLACS<\/a> \u2013 European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/em> (social sciences, Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), University of Amsterdam)<\/li>\n
  21. European Journal of Taxonomy<\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>a consortium of European natural history institutions and museums)<\/em><\/li>\n
  22. ExRNA<\/a> <\/em>(extracellular RNA journal) (Nanjing University)<\/li>\n
  23. Forest Ecosystems<\/em><\/a> (Beijing Forestry University)<\/li>\n
  24. Frontiers in Biogeography<\/a><\/em> (International Biogeography Society<\/a>) [publication costs range from US$150-300 for those able to pay<\/a>]<\/li>\n
  25. Geoscience Frontiers<\/em><\/a> (<\/span>China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Peking University)<\/li>\n
  26. Hystrix<\/a> – The Italian Journal of Mammalogy (<\/em>the Italian Society for Theriology)<\/li>\n
  27. Iheringia, S\u00e9rie Zoologia<\/em><\/a> (Museu de Ci\u00eancias Naturais of the Secretaria do Meio Ambiente e Infraestrutura \u2013 RS)<\/li>\n
  28. International Aquatic Research<\/a> <\/em>(Islamic Azad University<\/a>, Tonekabon Branch, <\/span>Iran)<\/li>\n
  29. Invertebrate Zoology<\/a> (KMK Scientific Press Ltd<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  30. Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries<\/a> <\/em>(University of Kerala, India)<\/li>\n
  31. Journal of Indonesian Natural History <\/em><\/a>(<\/i>Department of Biology of the Andalas University, Indonesia and Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark)<\/li>\n
  32. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in association with the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society)<\/li>\n
  33. Marine & Fishery Sciences<\/em> <\/a>(MAFIS) (National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development – INIDEP, Argentina)<\/li>\n
  34. Marine Ornithology: Journal of Seabird Research and Conservation <\/i><\/a>(Pacific Seabird Group)<\/li>\n
  35. Mediterranean Marine Science<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Hellenic Centre for Marine Research)<\/li>\n
  36. Micronesica<\/em><\/a> (University of Guam), has voluntary page charges.<\/li>\n
  37. NAMMCO Scientific Publications<\/em><\/a> series (North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  38. Natural Systems and Resources<\/em><\/a> (Volgograd State University<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  39. Nauplius<\/a><\/em> (Brazilian Crustacean Society)<\/li>\n
  40. Neotropical Biodiversity<\/i> <\/a>(Ecuador\u00b4s National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation)<\/li>\n
  41. Notulae Algarum <\/em><\/a>(AlgaeBase, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)<\/li>\n
  42. Pap\u00e9is Avulsos de Zoologia<\/a><\/em> (PAZ) (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> (MZUSP))<\/li>\n
  43. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation<\/em><\/a> (Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation)<\/li>\n
  44. Physical Oceanography <\/a><\/em>(<\/a>Earth Sciences Division of Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry for Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation)<\/li>\n
  45. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology <\/em><\/a>(National University and National History Museum of Singapore)<\/li>\n
  46. Revista de Biolog\u00eda Tropical<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Costa Rica)<\/li>\n
  47. Russi<\/a>an Arctic\u00a0<\/a>(Russian\u00a0Centre of Information and Legal Support for the Development of the Arctic<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  48. Scientia Marina\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Institut de Ci\u00e8ncies del Mar de Barcelona, CSIC)<\/li>\n
  49. Seabird<\/a> (The Seabird Group)<\/li>\n
  50. Species Diversity<\/a><\/em> (Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology)<\/li>\n
  51. TAPROBANICA<\/em>,<\/a> The Journal of Asian Biodiversity (Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (FMIPA) of the University of Indonesia); voluntary payment of costs towards publication and colour figures<\/li>\n
  52. The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology<\/em><\/a> includes physiology, ecology, biology (Egyptian Society for Biosciences Advancement<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  53. Vertebrate Zoology<\/a> (<\/em>Senckenberg Museum of Zoology Dresden, Germany)<\/li>\n
  54. Zoological Studies<\/em> <\/a>(Academia Sinica, Taipei)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  55. Zoosystematics and Evolution<\/em><\/a> (Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde, Berlin) but limited\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    AND<\/p>\n

    Diversity and Distributions<\/a> is open-access and will waive page charges for anybody who lacks funds, and automatically for some countries. This is after some resignations<\/a> and complaints<\/a> from authors when it went entirely open-access with high fees for authors. Similarly, the Oryx – the international Journal of Conservatio<\/em><\/a>n is open-access and will waive APC for any authors who do not have funds.\u00a0<\/a>
    \n    eLife<\/a> says “A fee of $2,500* is collected for published research papers. However, authors with insufficient funding to pay the fee are eligible for a fee waiver.” It is mainly a biomed journal but includes Ecology and Evolutionary biology sections.
    \n    Web Ecology<\/em><\/a> (European Ecological Federation) now says it charges APC but not how much.<\/span>
    \n    Acta Palaeont<\/a><\/em>ologica Polonica<\/em><\/a> (Institute of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences) is open access and free to authors for papers less than 10 pages in length.
    \nDue to a drop in revenue during the covid pandemic, the     Journal of Threatened Taxa<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(a scientific community effort supported by several partners) has an to change to an author-pays model, but the costs are reasonable<\/a>.
    \nIn addition, the     Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<\/i>ICES J. Marine Science<\/em><\/a>, Science<\/em><\/a> and sister journals, and\u00a0Cell Press journals <\/a>(Trends in Ecology and Evolution<\/em> and Current Biology<\/em>), are free to publish in and all papers become OA after a year. Marine Ecology Progress Series<\/a><\/em> is free to publish in and all articles are open access after 5 years. Thus, it seems inadvisable to pay open-access fees to journals where the paper will become open-access at no cost.
    \nThe\u00a0Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences of the USA (    PNAS) <\/a><\/em>are open access after 6 months but they charge over US$1,600 to publish in.
    \nPlease add any additional options in the Comments box below.
    \nA searchable source for open-access journals is the     Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a> where I found 11 of the above journals on 14th April 2020.
    \nNote that this open-access journal’s fees were covered by AWI but are not in 2020:     Helgoland Marine Research\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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