There seems to be a little spate this week of new electronic publishing platforms offering routes for gold Open Access. I’ve spotted three just in the last couple of days:
- The Social Sciences Directory, a “monthly-updated, international database of contemporary scholarship relating to the social sciences”. Author fees are a waivable “article processing charge” of £100+VAT per article, or by institutional subscription. Eduserv are asking for expressions of interest from institutions for wrapping up the institutional subscription in a Chest Agreement. Link: www.socialsciencesdirectory.com
- PeerJ, a peer-reviewed academic journal (plus a pre-prints service) focused on the Biological and Medical Sciences. PeerJ promises a “new model” of author fees – instead of a charge for each article submitted, there is a single one-off lifetime “membership plan” of (USD) $99 upwards. (Article in Times Higher Ed.) Link: peerj.com
- Closer to home, Alluvium, a new monthly OA journal of “21st century literary criticism” has been launched by Dr Caroline Edwards of the University of Lincoln, along with Martin Paul Eve (University of Sussex). Link: www.alluvium-journal.org
