Hi all,
I have searched around for Open Access journals and find that Zootaxa at
$20/page is a reasonable bargain if the paper is not too long. If you
publish multiple papers with them and pay for Open Access, there are
discounts.
BSW cost is $1000 per paper regardless of length and with this the page
charges are removed.
The best deal seems to be Helgoland Marine Research. They are now fully
Open Access with AWI paying all publication costs. Even better, as an
online journal, there is no size limit.
As Geoff indicates you need to be certain that the ZooBank number is
acquired and included in the online version.
Jim
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz>
wrote:
>> I strongly advocate making all taxonomy open access.
>> Just noting that Marine Biology Research is closed access (subscription
> only). If you publish taxonomy in such a journal, you may think people
> only have to email you to get a copy, inconvenient though that maybe for
> them and for you. It assumes this journal publishes your email address
> alongside the abstract (for example Zootaxa does not - it is impossible to
> email a Zootaxa author of a closed-access article through the Zootaxa
> website). However, what happens after you drop out of science? Well, long
> after you are dead this commercial publisher of MBR (Taylor & Francis) will
> still be charging a stiff fee to let people read the research over which
> you have laboured (and they have copyrighted for themselves while
> contributing very little to the end result). This will go on for another
> hundred years or so, and will undoubtedly restrict the number of people who
> can use your work, and disadvantage the open dissemination of knowledge.
> Is that what you want?
>> You can have open access at MBR, but it costs GBP £1,788 / Euro €2,150 /
> USD $2,950 per article. That is a sizeable sum. Probably a good idea to
> shop around for a cheaper open-access option.
>> Another factor when choosing a journal is whether the journal registers
> your article at ZooBank. If they don't then your work is not Code
> published until the print edition - in the case of some journals this can
> be nine months or more after your work appears online. However, I am
> pleased to see that MBR has registered the example article listed below at
> ZooBank, and thus presumably registers all taxonomy. That's good.
>> Cheers,
>> Geoff
>> ________________________________________
> From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu <annelida-bounces from oat.bio.> indiana.edu> on behalf of Sergio Taboada <sergiotab from gmail.com>
> Sent: 15 February 2017 20:56
> To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu> Subject: [Annelida] Taxonomic papers at Marine Biology Research
>> Dear all,
>> I am forwarding you an email I received from the Porifera list that might
> be of your interest, specially if you are planning on submitting taxonomic
> studies related to
>> *alpha-taxonomic accounts (including taxonomic reviews for a distinct
> region or group of species) as well as integrative taxonomic revisions.
> *Please
> see below for further details.
>> All the best,
>> Sergi.
>> --
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> Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London
> Life Sciences Dept,
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> Office 610B
> Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7492 6059
>>>> Dear spongers,
>> I would like to draw your attention to the *new Marine Biology Research
> (MBRJ) publication category called 'Taxonomic revision'*. MBRJ will now
> support comprehensive alpha-taxonomic accounts (including taxonomic reviews
> for a distinct region or group of species) as well as integrative taxonomic
> revisions. MBRJ will even remunerate papers published under this category
> with an allowance for excessive overall size and colour pages printed free
> of charge.
>> If you are interested, please read the recent editorial (
>http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17451000.2016.1228979) which
> provides all needed instructions including links to published examples of
> taxonomic papers in the new and much improved scientific- and
> technical-quality style of MBRJ. All style examples are open access.
>> The first paper in the “Taxonomic Revision” category has been published (
>http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17451000.2016.1241411, Tu T-H,
> Dai C-F, Jeng M-S. 2016. Taxonomic revision of Coralliidae with
> descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Hawaii Archipelago).
> Best regards,
> Paco------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dr. Paco Cardenas, MBRJ Subject Editor for PoriferaDiv. of Pharmacognosy,
> Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Uppsala University
> BMC Box 574,
> SE 75123 Uppsala, Sweden
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