scholarly journals Publisher’s Note: Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine—An International Open Access Journal

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
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Open Access ◽  
Chemical Compounds ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Non Profit

MDPI was founded in 1996 as a non-profit project for the promotion and preservation of the diversity of chemical compounds [...]

scholarly journals Neuroscience publishing is too important to leave to publishers

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. ed1
Author(s):  
Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Quality Checks

Almost every open access neuroscience journal is pay-to-publish. This leaves neuroscientists with a choice of submitting to journals that not all of our colleagues can legitimately access and choosing to pay large sums of money to publish open access. Neuroanatomy and Behaviour is a new platinum open access journal published by a non-profit association of scientists. Since we do not charge fees, we will focus entirely on the quality of submitted articles and encourage the adoption of reproducibility-enhancing practices, like open data, preregistration, and data quality checks. We hope that our colleagues will join us in this endeavour so that we can support good neuroscience no matter where it comes from.

A recipe for launching a diamond open-access journal with a century of geological knowledge in the pantry: Lessons learned from GEUS Bulletin

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Jex ◽  
Wiliiam Colgan ◽  
Michael Bryld Wessel Fyhn ◽  
Adam A Garde ◽  
Jon R Ineson ◽  
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Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
Small Team

<div> <p>One active journal. Fourteen legacy titles. More than 3000 articles published since 1893 – some digitised, some not. One full-time member of staff. A small team of dedicated geoscientists. Limited budget. PlanS. Open-source journal software. If these are the ingredients, what is the recipe? </p> </div><div> <p>Like many surveys, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has a long history of publishing. Our full catalogue of titles extends back to 1893 and our current title, GEUS Bulletin (<em>www.geusbulletin.org</em>; formerly Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin), has been active since 2003. Our journals have always been grassroots initiatives – run by scientists, for scientists. But two years ago, amid the fast-changing demands of digital publishing, the Survey faced a quandary: should we continue publishing our own journal? At a time of rapid proliferation of journals for any discipline imaginable, what niche did a geographically-focused journal fill? What should we modernise? Could we relaunch as an online, diamond open-access journal on our existing budget? Could we implement more of the services our authors wanted and attract more authors beyond our traditional audience? </p> </div><div> <p>Two years later, we have successfully re-launched our collection of journals, without increasing our overall budget. Using open-source solutions, we have transformed our print-focused publication workflow to a new online, open-access platform and data repository. We are currently migrating our entire back catalogue of legacy titles to the same platform. Although we only have visitor data for our new platform since November 2020, we can see early signs of increased article views (<em>c</em>. +82% in Nov–Dec 2020, compared with the same months in 2018 and 2019) and a jump in traffic from external websites like Google Scholar (from 5% before re-launch to 35% after re-launch). In this presentation, we present a recipe that we hope other geological surveys, societies and institutions can follow when launching (or relaunching) their own journals using open-source solutions. We review the options available to small survey or society publishers on a limited budget, from journal hosting to typesetting. We highlight the advantages of non-profit open-access publishing and open source, community-driven solutions that currently exist. We close by highlighting the barriers that remain for small non-profit publishers when balancing discoverability, journal impact and compliance with the latest open-access initiatives such as Plan S, and web accessibility regulations.  </p> </div><div> <p>It is still early days for GEUS Bulletin, but we see the adoption of open-source platforms as the key ingredient to our potential for success in the coming years. Such platforms allow us to offer diamond open-access publishing and a data repository, while maintaining our non-profit, publishing model with neither author nor reader fees. </p> </div>

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