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Must-Read SWOT Analysis of Open Access Journals That Technology Watch Specialists Shouldn't Ignore

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[crimsonpublishersminingscience]

Changing Social Perceptions on Mining-Related Activities: A Key Challenge in the 4th Industrial Revolution

We are living in a period of multiple and accelerating changes where new uncertainties emerge constantly. Guidelines for economic growth are changing, social demands and environmental concerns are growing, and technological advancements are succeeding at rates never seen before. The main drivers of these changes are mostly related to digitization, decarbonization and dematerialization processes of economies, which follow the recent improvements achieved in biotechnology, digital networks, software design, and information and communication technologies. The ongoing technological (r)evolution includes continued linear progressions of solutions of widespread use along with innovations of exponential increase that will significantly shape the future and have potential to influence the current social and cultural patterns. However, all these transformations stimulate the reliance on a large number of minerals and metals whose increasing demand cannot be fulfilled on the basis of reuse, recycling and/or substitution practices. In other words: the full development of digital, eco-efficient and low-C intensity economies with higher levels of automation will require considerable inputs of raw materials derived from primary resources to balance the demand/supply ratio, filling the gaps of material stocks and flows in the economy that are not provided by secondary sources, even when suitably managed. So, mineral exploration and mining will remain fundamental in the completion of pathways to the future, as occurred throughout the history of human civilization. Notwithstanding this evidence, clearly demonstrated in many studies, the access to mineral resources are becoming increasingly difficult worldwide and mining-related activities are even more perceived negatively by society.

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[anarcho-physicist]

After 4 years of work, I've finally published my very first peer-reviewed theory paper: Design rules for controlling active topological defects

(and it's open access! :D)

I am sooo excited to finally be able to share this! I'll probably write some more in the future about what it was like to work on this project, but for now here's what I want to say about it:

I think this work is a beautiful example of how the long, meandering paths of curiosity-driven research can bring us in completely unexpected directions, yielding new ideas and technologies that might never have been found by problem- or profit-driven research.

We started this project because we were interested in the fundamental physics of active topological defects; we wanted to understand and develop a theory to explain their effective properties, interactions, and collective behaviors when they're hosted by a material whose activity is not constant throughout space and time.

Along the way, we accidentally stumbled into a completely new technique for controlling the flow of active 2D nematic fluids, by using symmetry principles to design activity patterns that can induce self-propulsion or rotation of defect cores. This ended up being such a big deal that we made it the focus of the paper, for a few reasons:

Topological defects represent a natural way to have discrete information in a continuous medium, so if we wanted to make a soft material capable of doing logical operations like a computer, controlling active defects might be a really good way of putting that together.

There have also been a number of biological systems that have been shown to have the symmetries of active nematics, with experiments showing that topological defects might play important roles in biological processes, like morphogenesis or cell extrusion in epithelia. If we could control these defects, we'd have unprecedented control over the biological processes themselves.

Right now the technique has only been demonstrated in simulations, but there are a number of experimental groups who are working on the kinds of materials that we might be able to try this in, so hopefully I'll get to see experimental verification someday soon!

[superlinguo]

Himalayan Linguistics, Linguistics Vanguard and the Australian Journal of Linguistics

In 2024 I have returned to my role as an editor of Himalayan Linguistics, and have joined the editorial boards of two other journals; Linguistics Vanguard and the Australian Journal of Linguistics. I've published in each of these journals before joining the editorial boards, and it's lovely to be involved in three journals across three different areas of interest.

Himalayan Linguistics is a fully Open Access journal, while Linguistics Vanguard and the Australian Journal of Linguistics have a mix of open access and licensed content. If you are an academic and your work is relevant to any of these three journals, please consider them for your next research paper!

Himalayan Linguistics

One of my first academic publications was with Himalayan Linguistics in 2013. I've been so grateful for all the work of the editorial team over the years that I joined the board, and then stepped up as editor in 2022. My co-editors are Gregory Anderson and You-Jing Lin.

Himalayan Linguistics costs nothing to read, and charges no fees for publishing. We're lucky to have the University of California eScholarship infrastructure for publishing. It's my favourite model for academic research.

From the website:

Himalayan Linguistics is an online peer-reviewed journal specializing in languages of the Himalayan region. We publish articles, book reviews, book notices and field reports in the semi-annual issues of the journals. We also publish grammars, dictionaries, and text collections as free-standing publications in our “Archive” series. Himalayan Linguistics is free; that is, there is no subscription fee, and there is no fee charged to authors who publish their papers in HL.

My publications in HL, Superlinguo summary posts:

The relationship between Yolmo and Kagate: Article in Himalayan Linguistics

Reported evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman languages

Linguistics Vanguard

Linguistics Vanguard launched in 2015 and I was eyeing it off for years before being delighted to have a chance to submit a paper for the 2023 Special Issue on scifi corpus methods. Yup, it's the kind of journal that's cool enough to have a whole special issue on using corpora to do linguistics on scifi. I have another paper in the revisions process with LV on lingcomm. I can attest to the speedy process and focus on conciseness. I'm delighted to join as an area manager for gesture and multimodal submissions.

Linguistics Vanguard is a new channel for high quality articles and innovative approaches in all major fields of linguistics. This multimodal journal is published solely online and provides an accessible platform supporting both traditional and new kinds of publications. Linguistics Vanguard seeks to publish concise and up-to-date reports on the state of the art in linguistics as well as cutting-edge research papers. With its topical breadth of coverage and anticipated quick rate of production, it is one of the leading platforms for scientific exchange in linguistics. Its broad theoretical range, international scope, and diversity of article formats engage students and scholars alike.

My publications in LV, Superlinguo summary posts:

From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: Emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture

Australian Journal of Linguistics

The Australian Linguistic Society is my local linguistics org, and I'm delighted to join an editorial board full of people whose work I deeply respect. I'm also happy to report the AJL recently adopted the Tromsø Recommendations for data citation.

The Australian Journal of Linguistics is the official journal of the Australian Linguistic Society and the premier international journal on language in Australia and the region. The focus of the journal is research on Australian Indigenous languages, Australian Englishes, community languages in Australia, language in Australian society, and languages of the Australian-Pacific region. The journal publishes papers that make a significant theoretical, methodological and/or practical contribution to the field and are accessible to a broad audience.

My publications in AJL, Superlinguo summary posts:

Ten years of Linguistics in the Pub (Australian Journal of Linguistics)

Revisiting Significant Action and Gesture Categorization

[mariacallous]

De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth. Well, not the woolly mammoth exactly, but an Asian elephant gene-edited to give it the fuzzy hair and layer of blubber that allowed its close relative to thrive in sub-zero environments.

To get to these so-called “functional mammoths,” Colossal’s scientists need to solve a whole bunch of challenges: making the right genetic tweaks, growing edited cells into fully formed baby functional mammoths, and finding a space where these animals can thrive. It’s a long, uncertain road, but the startup has just announced a small breakthrough that should ease some of the way forward.

Scientists at Colossal have managed to reprogram Asian elephant cells into an embryonic-like state that can give rise to every other cell type. This opens up a path to creating elephant sperm and eggs in the lab and being able to test gene edits without having to frequently take tissue samples from living elephants. The research, which hasn’t yet been released in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, will be published on the preprint server Biorxiv.

There are only around 30,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants in the wild, so access to these animals—and particularly their sperm and eggs—is extremely limited. Yet Colossal needs these cells if they’re going to figure out how to bring their functional mammoths to life. “With so few fertile female elephants, we really don’t want to interfere with their reproduction at all. We want to do it independently,” says George Church, a Harvard geneticist and Colossal cofounder.

The cells that Colossal created are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and they behave a lot like the stems cells found in an embryo. Embryonic stem cells have the ability to give rise to all kinds of different cell types that make up organisms—a quality that scientists call pluripotency. Most cells, however, lose this ability as the organism develops. Human skin, for instance, can’t spontaneously turn into muscle or cells that line the inside of the intestine.

In 2006, the Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka showed it was possible to take mature cells and turn them back into a pluripotent state. Yamanaka’s research was in mice cells, but later scientists followed up by deriving iPSCs for lots of different species, including humans, horses, pigs, cattle, monkeys, and the northern white rhino—a functionally extinct subspecies with only two individuals, both females, remaining in the wild.

Reprogramming Asian elephant cells into iPSCs proved trickier than with other species, says Eriona Hysolli, head of biological sciences at Colossal. As with other species, the scientists reprogrammed the elephant cells by exposing them to a series of different chemicals and then adding proteins called transcription factors that turn on particular genes to change how the cells functions. The whole process took two months, which is much longer than the 5 to 10 days it takes to create mouse iPSCs or the three weeks for human iPSCs.

This difficulty might have to do with the unique biology of elephants, says Vincent Lynch, a developmental biologist at the University at Buffalo in New York who wasn’t involved in the Colossal study. Elephants are the classic example of Peto’s paradox—the idea that very large animals have unusually low rates of cancer given their size. Since cancer can be caused by genetic mutations that accumulate as cells divide, you’d expect that animals with 100 times more cells than humans would have a much higher risk of cancer.

But elephants have cancer rates even lower than humans—a surprising fact given their vast size. One hypothesis for elephants’ cancer-defying biology is that they carry lots of copies of a tumor-suppressing gene called P53. Humans, on the other hand, only have one copy of this gene.

P53 is good for elephant health, but it could be the reason that up until now scientists have struggled to create iPSCs from elephant cells, Lynch says. One way the gene seems to work is by stopping cells from entering a state where they can duplicate indefinitely, which is one of the key features of iPSCs.

Hysolli says that she’d like to reduce the time it takes to create elephant iPSCs, and refine the process so the Colossal team can produce them at a greater scale. The iPSCs will be particularly useful if Colossal’s scientists can turn them into sperm and egg cells, something that Hysolli’s team is already working on. Since there is a relatively limited supply of elephant eggs and sperm, one problem facing the de-extinction project is getting enough genetic diversity to support a population of functional mammoths—develop them from too few individuals, and you risk the negative effects of inbreeding. Being able to create sperm and egg cells in the lab should help with that, Church says.

These cells could also be useful for conservation work, Hysolli says. Colossal has partnered with researchers working on elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus (EEHV), a leading cause of death for young Asian elephants. The iPSCs could be a good way to figure out how the virus infects different cell types. The cells will also be useful for testing whether Colossal’s edits to produce mammoth-like fur and fat layers are working as scientists hope.

“I have no doubt that given enough time and money they will overcome the technical challenges of making a woolly-mammoth-looking elephant,” says Lynch. But he’s less convinced of the ecological benefits of de-extinction. The startup intends to introduce the elephant-mammoth hybrids into the wild to re-create the role once played by the mammoth in the Arctic ecosystem, grazing the land and trampling snow cover, potentially decelerating the melting of permafrost.

“How many hairy Asian elephants do you need to make that work?” Lynch asks. Whether there really is a niche for edited elephants in the Arctic 4,000 years after mammoths last roamed the area is a question that conservationists are still grappling with. Sure, scientists might be able to create mammoth-like Asian elephants, but whether we should is open to much debate.

Colossal’s scientists will be glad if they get to that point. Although they have elephant iPSCs, much of the work of creating elephant-mammoth hybrids is ahead of them. They must figure out how to create elephant sperm and egg cells, master the right edits to tweak their elephants, and take their creation through the 22-month Asian elephant gestation period. And then they have to do it enough times to build a population that can actually deliver on some of their ecological aims.

“It feels very significant,” Church says of the iPSC breakthrough. “This is a very big deal.” If Colossal is going to deliver on its de-extinction mission, then there will be many other moments like this ahead.

[frogsat]

Journal publication fees are such BS. Like I get $20-$50 for processing or whatever but there is no reason I need to pay you $2000+ so you can host a pdf on a paywalled website especially considering peer reviewers aren't paid. Do I want my paper open access? Absolutely. Scientific info should not be behind a paywall. Do I want to pay a random journal an additional $5k ON TOP of the original fee to get it open access? Absolutely not.

[miteshsposts]

Your Guide to Publishing Research Papers for Free

In the field of scholarly inquiry, publishing your work is important. However, it can be difficult, especially with all the expenses. The good news is that journals are free. Let's analyze what they are and how, for a relatively small cost, they might assist you in sharing your findings.

What Are Free Journals?

Free journals are exactly what they sound like: they don't charge you anything to publish your research. They believe in open access, which means anyone with an internet connection can read your work for free. This not only helps spread knowledge but also encourages collaboration among researchers.

Why Publish in Free Journals?

No Fees:  Unlike traditional journals, free journals don't ask for money to publish your work. This means researchers from all backgrounds can share their findings without worrying about costs.

More Readers:  Because anyone can access free journals, your research reaches a wider audience. This can lead to more people citing your work and can spark discussions among different fields of study.

Faster Publishing:  Free journals usually work quickly to publish your research. This means your findings can join the academic conversation sooner, making your contribution more timely.

Community Support:  Many free journals are run by universities or nonprofit groups dedicated to spreading knowledge. By publishing in these journals, you support their mission and help make research more accessible to everyone.

Choosing the Right Free Journal

When picking a free journal to publish in, consider:

Peer Review:  Make sure the journal has a thorough review process to maintain quality.

Visibility:  Check if the journal is recognized and respected in your field.

Open Access:  Ensure the journal follows open access principles, so your work is available to all.

Ethics:  Confirm the journal follows ethical guidelines for publishing.

Conclusion

Free journals are great opportunities for researchers to share their work without worrying about costs. They help spread knowledge and encourage collaboration across different fields. So, if you're looking to publish your research, consider the benefits of free journals. They can help your work reach a wider audience and make a real impact.

Visit International Journal of Science Engineering and Technology (IJSET) for a platform dedicated to free publication of research papers.

[mercurialkitty]

I just reblogged something about vanity presses, and it made me remember that our tumblr academics need to be wary about predatory academic journal publishers.

I have seen very intelligent people with doctorates fall for journal/open access sites that I thought were clearly super sketchy. Be especially careful about submitting an article to a journal if there are:

Fees for rapid consideration

Fees to get a faster review process

Fees that will not be refunded even if the article is rejected

Fees to withdraw the publication

No author guidelines !!

More about that! A legit journal will give you a lot of information and require info back.

There should be ethics statements, including requests for you to provide a Declaration of Interest or similarly worded document.

There should be info on the writing process including maximum word count info, number of illustrations allowed, citation style, etc.

There should be info on what kind of peer review process they use. Is it a double or triple anonymized review? Is it some form of transparent open review that has guidelines?

In legit peer review they don't just accept your paper, make some corrections, and publish it. They don't say, "Hey the publisher said we got to finish reviewing this article in 2 weeks because somebody paid more!" Good peer review means that the reviewers will take time and you/your team will get feedback, and/or questions about your methodology, results, etc. People will go over your tables and flow charting and say, "Wait minute, did you mean ___ or ___ in line #104?" There may be statuses like "minor revisions," "moderate revisions" or "major revisions." You might even travel through statuses until you get a provisional or formal acceptance.

ASK PEOPLE YOU TRUST BEFORE SUBMITTING TO A JOURNAL! Your university may have a special department, usually called scholarly communications, or office of research that can provide some answers about the publishing process.

Many universities have realized that hybrid and open access journal fees do create an equity problem, and rather than provide money for an individual's fees, they have agreements for discounts with legitimate publishers. If your university has that type of program (sample of one), the people involved may be a good place to ask if the publisher/journal is ok.

Plus, academic librarians can see if there is a Journal Citation Report on the title, or do other investigating for you. That reminds me: actually read/try to find the journal in the library databases and catalog. Anyway, here are some library guides for more info about predatory publishers.

[finnlongman]

two questions - congrats on the trans cú update! I wondered how much control you have over being able to make your academic work available for free online? also, is your agent a medievalist, or are they also doing a "hang on let me google something. oh yeah this is messed up" with your latest project?

Second question first: no, my agent is not a medievalist, and is generally not familiar with the stories I've been retelling. She signed me for The Butterfly Assassin, after all, so I don't think she was entirely expecting me to also start writing adult queer literary fantasy retellings of medieval stories 😅 But she's rolled with it. The Wolf And His King I gave her without any particular background context, because that was already written. With the Blodeuwedd novel, I wrote a proposal which includes both a brief summary of the original plot, and a discussion of what I'm doing with it and the themes I'm exploring. But it is hard not to sound completely unhinged when your proposal is like "Instead of dying, he turns into an eagle." Like. Okay... I also had to give a list of content warnings for this one, although I probably wasn't thorough enough 😬 It's hard to know what to warn for, particularly when the characters aren't necessarily human when certain events occur.

I don't know if she was at all familiar with the story before I started inflicting this project on her. I first came across it via The Owl Service by Alan Garner when I was very young, long before I was a medievalist, so it's possible she's had similar exposure to it. But I feel like if this book goes further, there are definitely going to be people googling the Fourth Branch and going, "Okay, what the HELL?" 🙈

As for sharing my academic work, it really depends on the journal where it's being published. My article about the seven Maines is in a print-only journal with very strict copyright rules, so I can't upload that one to my website. I understand why they have those policies, in that specific case, and the journal is very cheap for individuals to buy, so it's not the worst. However, it's not my preferred way to publish, and I prefer to seek Open Access routes if I can. My first article about Láeg, in Quaestio Insularis, is Open Access and available on the journal's website for free. I've written a second article about Láeg too, which is currently awaiting peer review, and I submitted that to an Open Access journal as well, so if it's accepted it will be available online. In that case, I chose the journal specifically because of its OA policies and the fact that they encourage article sharing on authors' own websites.

With the trans Cú Chulainn article, it's in a conference proceedings which is distributed via Amazon print-on-demand type processes. I wasn't sure, therefore, what their policy would be – since it's openly available to buy (rather than requiring expensive institutional subscriptions), I thought they might be keen to insist on that. However, I think the purpose of the proceedings is very much to share the research and give as many people the opportunity to build on it as they can, so when I asked, they were happy for me to make it available online once I've got the final file. I will mostly likely upload it to my own website so that I keep control of where it's hosted, rather than using a third party site like Academia.edu.

I have had various patches of being an independent scholar without library access – currently I have access but only because I WORK in the library; my research is unaffiliated – so making material widely available is really important to me. I know how frustrating it is when everything relevant is paywalled. And I also think we as a field can't complain about people relying on outdated and inaccurate Victorian scholarship if that's the only material that's available for people outside of universities to read, so I'm all for the gradual shift to making more and more research widely available!

Probably, if I continue to publish, some of my work will end up being paywalled because there just aren't that many journals in my field and I'll have to go with the options open to me. But more and more journals are allowing researchers to retain the rights to share their articles online, so I'll always try and keep as much available as I can.

[michaelgogins]

The Causal Potency of Consciousness

The other day I read The causal potency of consciousness in the physical world on the arXiv, by Danko Georgiev.

I know little about this author, other than that he has several other preprints on the arXiv on this and related subjects. His affiliation is listed as the Institute for Advanced Study in Varna, but on the Web site of that organization, he appears as the only author, so that appears to be a shell for him. Some of the papers listed there do have other authors in addition to Georgiev.

Georgiev also is the author of the textbook Quantum Information and Consciousness, published by CRC Press and available from Routledge.

And Georgiev is the chief editor of the online, open access journal Quanta (not to be confused with the online magazine Quanta!). Some of the authors published in the open access journal Quanta appear in other peer-reviewed journals of academic science (e.g. Stan Gudder).

Whatever. Georgiev is not a professor, nor is he an institutional researcher, and he appears to be near the fringe.

But he is not on the fringe, or beyond it.

Georgiev's paper presents ideas that I myself had a year or so ago, when I was regularly answering questions on Quora and used that as an excuse to do some amateur philosophizing. And these thoughts of mine go way back to my twenties, when I was trying to relate Chaitin's ideas about Kolmogorov complexity to self-consciousness.

The paper is written in a clear and accessible style and makes several arguments:

Consciousness must provide a selective advantage to conscious animals, including human beings. I had also made this argument, but I am not 100% sure the argument does not beg the question. After all, it might be objected that something physical both causes consciousness and provides a selective advantage.

Consciousness, as a quantum process, observes itself and this is a quantum measurement. I had also made this argument, but again, I am not 100% sure that the argument does not beg the question.

Consciousness has no causal potency from the standpoint of classical physics. I agree.

The quantum state of an organism is capable of indeterminate behavior, which in conscious organisms can be identified with free will, which is required for any satisfying theory of moral responsibility. I also had made this argument, and I went a bit further and pointed out that a free choice must appear random from the standpoint of classical physics, yet is rationally motivated from the standpoint of consciousness. In my view, this overcomes the objection that random behavior cannot be free.

I also have made the argument that human self-consciousness involves a fixed point that is not possible in classical physics, and may not be possible even in quantum physics.

And I have argued that quantum indeterminacy means the phenomenal world is not computable.

I am still not happy with the clarity and completeness of my arguments, and I am still working on them. But I do not doubt that they are all wound up with the points above.

Yet it is very nice to see that these ideas are circulating and may receive the attention and further research I think they deserve.

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What are Open Access Journals and How Can they Help Technology Watch Specialists ?

Introduction   As the amount of scientific knowledge published online continues to grow, it can be difficult to know where to look for reliable information .   Open access journals are a great way to gain access to credible, up-to-date research in your field of study . [...] https://is.gd/q5YjN9

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[nuadox]

Could ‘Peer Community In’ be the revolution in scientific publishing we’ve all been waiting for?

- By Denis Bourguet , Etienne Rouzies , Thomas Guillemaud , The Conversation -

In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Denis Bourguet, Benoit Facon and Thomas Guillemaud, founded Peer Community In (PCI), a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints (referring to the version of an article that a scientist submits to a review committee). 

The service greenlights articles and makes them and their reviews, data, codes and scripts available on an open-access basis. Out of this concept, PCI paved the way for researchers to regain control of their review and publishing system in an effort to increase transparency in the knowledge production chain.

Birth of an idea

The idea for the project emerged in 2016 following an examination of several failings in the science publishing system. Two major problems are the lack of open access for most publications, and the exorbitant publishing and subscription fees placed on institutions.

Even in France, where the movement for open science has been gaining momentum, half of publications are still protected by access rights. This means that they are not freely accessible to citizens, journalists, or any scientists affiliated with institutions that cannot afford to pay scientific journal subscriptions. These restrictions on the free circulation of scientific information are a hindrance to the sharing of scientific knowledge and ideas at large.

Moreover, the global turnover for the academic publishing industry in science, technology and medicine is estimated at US$10 billion for every 3 million articles published. This is a hefty sum, especially given that profit margins enjoyed by major publishing houses have averaged at 35-40% in recent years. Mindful of these costs and margins, the PCI founders wanted scientists and institutions to take back control of their own publishing. And so, in 2017, the Peer Community In initiative was born.

By science communities for science communities

PCI sets up communities of scientists who publicly review and approve pre-prints in their respective fields, while applying the same methods as those used for conventional scientific journals. Under this peer-review system, editors (known as ‘recommenders’) carry out one or more review rounds before deciding whether to reject or approve the preprint submitted to the PCI. Unlike virtually all traditional journals, if an article is approved, the editor must write a recommendation outlining its content and merits.

This recommendation is then published along with all other elements involved in the editorial process (including reviews, editorial decisions, authors’ responses, etc.) on the site of the PCI responsible for organising the preprint review. This level of transparency is what makes PCI unique within the current academic publishing system.

Lastly, the authors upload the finalised, approved and recommended version of the article – free of charge and on an open access basis – to the preprint server or open archive.

A revolution unfolding in science publishing

PCI is making traditional journal publication obsolete. Due to its de facto peer-reviewed status, the finalised, recommended version of the preprint is already suitable for citation. In France, PCI-recommended preprints are recognised by several leading institutions, review committees and recruitment panels at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). At the Europe-wide level, the reviewed preprints are recognised by the European Commission and funding agencies such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

PCI is also unique in its ability to separate peer review from publishing, given that approved and recommended preprints can still be submitted by authors for publication in scientific journals. Many journals even advertise themselves as ‘PCI-friendly’, meaning that when they receive submissions of PCI-recommended preprints, they take into account the reviews already completed by PCI in order to speed up their editorial decision-making.

New ground broken in 2021

This initiative was originally intended exclusively for PCIs to review and recommend preprints, but authors were sometimes frustrated to only see their recommended preprint on dedicated servers (despite being reviewed and recommended, preprints are still poorly indexed and not always recognised as genuine articles) or having to submit it for publication in a journal at the risk of being subjected to another round of review. However, since the creation of Peer Community Journal, scientists now have access to direct, unrestricted publishing of articles recommended by disciplinary PCIs.

Peer Community Journal is a diamond journal, meaning one that publishes articles with no fees charged to authors or readers. All content can be read free of charge without a pay-wall or other access restrictions. Designed as a general journal, Peer Community Journal currently comprises 16 sections (corresponding to the PCIs in operation) and is able to publish any preprint recommended by a disciplinary PCI.

An innovative model on the rise

Currently there are 16 disciplinary PCIs (including PCI Evolutionary Biology, PCI Ecology, PCI Neuroscience and PCI Registered Reports) and several more are on the way. Together, they boast 1,900 editors, 130 members in the editorial committees and more than 4,000 scientists-users overall. PCI and Peer Community Journal are recognised by 130 institutions worldwide, half of which (including the University of Perpignan Via Domitia) support the initiative financially. The number of French academics who are familiar with and/or who use PCI varies greatly between scientific communities. The percentage is very high among communities with a dedicated PCI (e.g., the ecology or evolutionary biology communities, with PCI Ecology and PCI Evol Biol, wherein an estimated half of scientists are now familiar with the system), but remains low among those without one.

To date, more than 600 articles have been reviewed through the system. Biology maintains a significant lead, but more and more fields are popping up, including archaeology and movement sciences. There is still plenty of scope for growth, in terms of greater investment from those familiar with the system and the creation of new PCIs by scientists from fields not yet represented by the current communities.

Other open-science initiatives have been set up across the globe, but none have quite managed to emulate the PCI model. Mostly limited to offers of peer-reviewed preprints (often directly or indirectly requiring a fee), these initiatives, such as Review Commons and PreReview, do not involve an editorial decision-making process and are therefore unable to effect change within the current publishing system.

While the PCI model is undeniably growing and now garners more than 10,000 unique visitors per month across all PCI websites, the creation of Peer Community Journal shows that the traditional academic publishing system is still intact. And it will doubtless endure into the near future, even though the preprint approval offered will hopefully become a sustainable model due to its cost-effectiveness and transparency across the board.

In the meantime, PCI and Peer Community Journal present a viable alternative for publishing diamond open access articles that are completely free of charge for authors and readers. In these changing times of unbridled, unjustifiable inflation placed on subscription and publishing prices, numerous institutions and universities are backing the rise of these diamond journals. PCI and Peer Community Journal embrace this dynamic by empowering all willing scientific communities to become agents of their own review and publishing process.

When science and society nurture each other, we reap the benefits of their mutual dialogue. Research can draw from citizens’ own contributions, improve their lives and even inform public decision-making. This is what we aim to show in the articles published in our series “Science and Society, A New Dialogue”, which is supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

Denis Bourguet, Directeur de recherches, Inrae; Etienne Rouzies, Conservateur des bibliothèques, Référent Science ouverte, Université de Perpignan, and Thomas Guillemaud, Directeur de recherches, Inrae

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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[literaturepublishersjournal]

Toxicity Case Reports Journal

Toxicity Case Reports Journal publishes case reports in Toxicity journal, images in Toxicity Case Reports Journal , journal of Toxicity case reports, case reports in Toxicology journal, journal of Toxicology case reports etc. Toxicity literally means poisonous or noxious and logos refers to the underlying science that explains the adverse effects of toxicity at the organismal level. 

Toxicology is therefore a multidisciplinary field which is at the interface of Biology, Chemistry and Medicine, with a special focus on Pharmacology. The subject discusses the presence of physical, biological and chemical agents in the Biological system and the way they affect its functions. Toxicology places special emphasis on the dosage of toxic substances, the route of exposure, species, age, sex, and the environment.

Toxicology: Case Reports Journal

Journal of Toxicology Case Reports is an Open Access journal published. The Journal publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of toxicology. Open access publishing proposes a relatively new model for scholarly journal publishing that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of all published articles. 

Open access allows all interested readers to view, download, print, and redistribute any article without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model. The journal uses an editorial tracking system that helps in providing good quality in the review process.

Toxicity Case Reports Journal Highlights: Aflatoxins, Cardiac Toxicity, Chemical Toxicology, Developmental Toxicology, Drug Toxicity, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Heavy Metal Toxins, Industrial Hygiene Toxicology, Insecticides Toxicology, Metal Toxicology, Nano Toxicology, Pesticidal Toxicology, Renal Toxicity, Reproductive Toxicology, Skin Toxicology, Tetanus Toxin, Toxicogenomics, Toxicology Reports, Toxicology Testing.

Journal of Forensic Toxicology & Pharmacology

Journal of Forensic Toxicology & Pharmacology: Journal of Forensic Toxicology and Pharmacology is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and aims to publish articles in all areas of forensic toxicology, forensic science and pharmacology. The field of forensic science has come a long way and this is particularly true in the area of forensic toxicology, which is both fascinating and important for many applications. 

Forensic toxicology is a discipline of forensic science which aids in medical or legal death investigation including disciplines such as analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry. Journal highlights include: Analytical Chemistry, Anthropometry, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, Drug Chemistry, Drugs of abuse, Environmental Forensics Fingerprints, Forensic Criminology, Forensic Death Investigation, Forensic Dentistry, Forensic Engineering, Forensic Genetics, Forensic Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychology, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Pharmacology, Forensic Psychiatry, Forensic Science, Forensic Toxicology, Medical and Clinical Toxicology

Related Journals: Forensic Toxicology, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Forensic Science International, Forensic Science International: Genetics, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Clinical Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicological Studies

International Journal of Chemical Sciences: International Journal of Chemical Sciences is a peer reviewed Quarterly Research Journal encompassing all the branches of Chemical Sciences like Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Analytical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, Industrial, Environmental, Agro and Soil Chemistry as well as Chemical Physics and Engineering etc

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics: American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics is an open access peer reviewed and bi-monthly published research journal that publishes articles in the field of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics. It is an international journal to encourage research publication to research scholars, academicians, professionals and students engaged in their respective fields.

Our mission is to advance research by working to develop and maintain competence, ethics and integrity and the highest professional standards in the specialty for the benefit of the public. The faculty seeks, through its activities, to bring about an improvement in research of the public.

American Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal publishing original research, reviews focusing on all aspects of drug delivery systems.

Specific topics in the journal include: The properties and design of drugs, Excipients and drug penetration enhancers, Vaccines, Nanotechnology in therapeutics, Polymers for drug delivery, Drug delivery systems including oral, nasal, pulmonary, parenteral, topical and transdermal Controlled release systems; nanoparticles, microparticles, microcapsules, liposomes. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, Biopharmaceutics, Medical devices.

Der Chemica Sinica

Der Chemica Sinica: The primary mission of the Der chemica Sinica is to become the premier source of high quality research from the whole of the world. All authors not only receive fast and comprehensive peer-review but also the article promotion to researchers working in the same field. Der chemica Sinica is peer-reviewed and is published in electronic version. 

The language of the Der chemica Sinica is English.Der chemica Sinica is an Open Access that aims to publish a complete and reliable source of information on discoveries and current developments as original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. in all areas of the chemistry science and making them available online without any subscriptions to the researchers worldwide. The editors welcome articles in this multidisciplinary field of chemistry.

Chemical Informatics

Chemical Informatics: Chemical Informatics is a vast field that aims to disseminate information regarding the design, structures, creation, dissemination, analysis, visualisation and the use of chemical information. 

Chemical Informatics Journal aims to supply scientists of resources in order to provide the scientific knowledge through the publication of peer-reviewed, high quality, scientific papers and other material on all topics related to Chemical information, Software and databases, Molecular modelling, Computer- aided drug design, Molecular graphics, Data mining techniques, QSAR, Use of chemical structures and their representation in chemical substance and chemical reaction databases. Journal Highlights: Models of Chemistry, Chemical Databases and Maintenance, Chemical Information, QSAR, Data Mining Techniques, Database Software

Related Journals: Journal of Cheminformatics, Journal of Molecular Modeling, Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Drug Discovery Today.

Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine

Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine: Journal of Medical Toxicology and Clinical Forensic Medicine is a Scholarly Open Access scientific journal which deals with both toxicology and Forensic medicine. Medical Toxicology is nothing but a medical subspecialty concentrating on the analysis, supervision and prevention of harming and additional adversative health issues due to medicines, work-related and ecological contaminants, and organic causes. 

Clinical Forensic Medicine (CFM) is a health field which deals with the collaboration of clinical medicine and the law. It is also involved in the examination of healthcare doctors who are believed to be impaired or may be a possible risk to the public for other reasons. Journal Highlights includes: Forensic Analysis, Forensic Pathology, Toxicology, Forensic Technologies, Forensic Science, Clinical Forensic Analysis, DNA FingerPrinting, Crime investigation, Toxicity Analysis, Jurisdiction

Related Journals: Forensic Nursing, Autopsy, Nanotoxicology, Forensic Science, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science International, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine, Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology; Environmental Toxicology, Clinical Toxicology, Journal of Applied Toxicology, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine.

Journal of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Diseases

Journal of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Diseases: Heavy Metal Toxicity refers to an overexposure to lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium or other high density or metallic element that causes irritation or damage to the body. 

Heavy metals can be found naturally in the environment, in homes, or at the workplace. Sudden severe exposures as well as moderate exposures over time can cause toxicity. Depending on the exposure, metals can increase cancer risk, impair production of red and white blood cells, causes Nausea, Vomiting, Rice-water diarrhoea, Encephalopathy, MODS, LoQTS, Painful neuropathy, Blue vomitus, GI irritation/ Haemorrhage, Hemolysis, MODS (ingested); MFF (inhaled), Vomiting, GI Haemorrhage, Cardiac depression, Metabolic acidosis, Very high doses: Haemorrhage, Bone marrow Suppression, Pulmonary Edema, Hepatorenal necrosis.The main aim of this journal is to provide the quality of data on Heavy Metal Toxicity and related diseases due to severe exposure to Heavy Metals.

Related Journals: The New England Journal of Medicine, Blood Transfusion, Medicine and Healthcare Journal, Iron Chelation Therapy Journal, Blood Journal, Scientific World Journal, Global Journal of Medical Research, Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany, Iranian Journal of Toxicology, Journal of Heavy Metals Toxicity and the Environment, International Journal of Toxicology Heavy Metal Poisoning and Cardiovascular Disease, Heavy metal poisoning from Ayurvedic medicines.

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Hey there! I just saw the post about your article being published-- congratulations!!!! Forgive me if you've already looked into this, but I saw that you mentioned being concerned about the fact that it's not open access; you could potentially post a pre-print of the article to your uni's institutional repository. I'm not sure what the policy of that specific journal is, because there are guidelines to what kind of pre-print material you're allowed to release as open access and what the journal's embargo is to do so, but there should be someone on staff at the W&M libraries who manages the IR and can help if you have questions. Anyway, thanks so much for sharing, and congratulations again!

Thanks for the insight and the congratulations, anon! ☺️

I thought I’d be able to do that right as I published, but, alas, I learned there is a year embargo for this journal as I signed my author agreement. My final version is different enough from my author’s original version that it would be best to wait the embargo period too instead of uploading such an old version that doesn’t have some necessary additions (and eliminations) from the peer review process.

But your ask reminded me to put a note on my calendar to contact my university library in December of this year to talk about institutional repository info with our publishing & open access librarian once the year mark hits, so thank you for your advice!

I wasn’t familiar with what I as an author could do versus could not do after publishing so I hope bringing your advice out of my asks helps someone who is early on in their publishing journey to be able to plan their access. It’s more complicated than I expected it to be and I am still learning the ins and outs (especially as it changes journal to journal 🙃) so hoping to share the communal knowledge in some way.

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IJAAR | An Open Access Research Journal

International Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural Research is open access and a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality original research papers together with review articles and short communications. It publishes original scientific work in all areas of Agronomy, Agricultural Sciences, Environment, and related Biology. 

ISSN: 2223-7054 (Print)

ISSN: 2225-3610 (Online)

Issue: 12 issues per year

Publication: Fast and Continuous.

Scope

IJAAR covers Agronomy, Agriculture, Crop biology, Breeding, Marine biology & Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Horticulture, Mushroom culture, Farming & Advanced farming, Crop management, Soil science, Irrigation & Water Management, Pest management, Weed management & Control, Disease management & Control, Fertilization, Agrochemicals, Nutrient and Micronutrients, Pathology, Pollution biology, Landscape architecture, Animal sciences & Animal welfare, Poultry, Fisheries, Sericulture, Apiculture, Economic biology, Pharmacy, Social forestry, Agroecology, Embryology, Agricultural philosophy, Heredity, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), Plant & Animal domestications, Food security, Food Processing and Preservation, Food production & Alternative food systems, Industrial agriculture, Traditional agriculture, Sustainable agriculture, Green revolution, Agricultural marketing and analysis.

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The Methodology of Creating of a Personal English Course book in Vocational Education and Training- Crimson Publishers

The Methodology of Creating of a Personal English Course book in Vocational Education and Training- Crimson Publishers

The paper presents the methodology of designing a personal foreign language course book in Vocational Education and Training where a college student acts not only as a passive learner but also as an original co-author. Taking into consideration the number of vocational specialties in the system of Russian Vocational Education and the necessity of further individualization of the learning process in order to improve the learning outcomes, the authors have worked out a 3-stage algorithm that allows achieving higher results in foreign language learning by replacing the source of parent materials, introducing an exact set of requirements for the selection of invariant course elements, laying an all-time great emphasis on independent and creative student’s work within the framework of the course. The pedagogical experiment that involved the complete 4-year course of studying led to the expectable along with surprising and highly promising effects that were verified thus regarded as reliable.

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