In cooperation with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Wiley has launched a new open access environmental and geographical journal called Geo. Similarly, Elsevier have launched a new open access journal called Burnout Research which will be covering the cross-disciplinary phenomenon of burnout.
What's interesting about these titles, apart from the content which might be relevant to your research, is the fact that they're both published by major for-profit publishers and that both are peer-reviewed. Burnout Research and Geo are far from rare in these respects of course, but there is a persistent misconception that open access means lack of scholarly rigour or publisher support.
To publish in either of these titles, authors would pay an article processing fee (APC) of between $750/£440 - $1,800/£1,150. Authors are also able to choose which copyright license to use. This license dictates how the author themself (as well as others) may redistribute the article, regardless of the fact that '[a]ll articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute' according to Elsevier.
Though certain scholarly societies have in the past been resistent to open access publishing, Geo's support from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) demonstrates that APCs might help to fund scholarly societies in the way that subscriptions formerly did. Many societies which formerly opposed open access have modified their policies and launched their own OA journals.
If you're interested in more about open access and what types of journals you might find in your research area, check out last week's post.
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