Hello everybody,
The European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT) is open access and does not charge publication fees. As an online journal they publish manuscripts quickly after they have been accepted and their impact factor is only slightly below Zootaxa. I published one paper in EJT and the editors were quick and efficient, yet diligent. They also take care of the ZooBank registration. I can highly recommend it.
I had a paper turned down in Helgoland Marine Research because they thought "it would better fit a journal which focuses on systematics".
With best wishes,
Michael
Michael Reuscher, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ecosystem Studies & Modeling
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5869
Corpus Christi, Texas 78412-5869
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From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of James Blake
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:13 AM
To: Geoff Read
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Subject: Re: [Annelida] Taxonomic papers at Marine Biology Research
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.
>> --
> Sergi Taboada
> The Natural History Museum
> Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London
> Life Sciences Dept,
> DC1, 6th floor
> 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
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