Category Archives: open access journals
The SciPost journal
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Recently I joined the SciPost journal as editor fellow. It is the first time that I work as editor for a journal. At the beginning I thought that this role would have taken me much time but then I realized that the editor work often takes less time than that of the referees. Probably in… Read More
Open access journals or journals for rich researchers?
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When in 2001 the biochemist Patrick O. Brown and the computational biologist Michael Eisen decided to open their non-profit foundation PLOS (Public Library of Science) to create a scientific journal that leaves free access to all articles published, no one believed they would have succeed. But they were tenacious and with the help of the… Read More