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Dear All, Happy New year.
Could you please fell free to share the names and links of good quality scientific journals across all specialities of life sciences including food and nutrition where scientists from resource limited economies could publish their self-funded research studies. Thanks for your positive response.
 

  • oaugustine AUGUSTINE ONYEAGHALA - Senior Contributor 20 Jan 2016

    Thanks to the Editorial team for the responses so far . The truth is that many journals out there charge fees directly or indirectly. Some Editors request that once a manuscript has been accepted for publication from a named author or authors for , such authors give up the copy right of the entire work to the publishers of the journal. Through this process, other researchers can request for reprint of the published work ONLY for fees and the original authors of such papers are not required to benefit from the funds generated. How ethical is this really??

    On predatory publishers, while it is unethical to receive money for reviews NOT properly done, there is no doubt that such journals do exist, but the truth is that many others that are also classified as predatory journals do perform thorough double to triple blind reviews of manuscripts prior to publishing same.

    That being said, I will really be glad to receive the list of journals that accept and publish manuscript for free.

  • GHN_Editors The Editorial Team 7 Jan 2016

    This blog on BMJ Blogs may also be of interest with regards to predatory publication, and journals that take money for publication but fail to provide adequate peer review and quality checks: Jocalyn Clark: Predatory journals debate raises controversies—but they’re not going away - http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2015/10/08/jocalyn-clark-predatory-journals-debate-raises-controversies-but-theyre-not-going-away/

  • GHN_Editors The Editorial Team 6 Jan 2016

    Thanks for your question, which I hope will attract responses from around the network. Many journals will publish articles without fees, only charging for open access publication - and sometimes this can be at a reduced or waived fee for participants from LMICs. An example from HIV/AIDS research is AIDS and Behavior - there are no page charges for publication, but open access is charged for (to cover the Journal fees). http://link.springer.com/journal/10461
    It is very important to avoid journals that charge for publication, but do not conduct good peer review and other quality procedures, rather surviving on the fees they charge. This is called predatory publication - and you can learn more about this on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open_access_publishing