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What are examples of trustworthy no-fees open access scientific journals where serious scientists have published? [closed]
I sometimes hear the claim there are no no-fee open access journals available in some fields. An example on this website was recently for the case of Bio Informatics / Computational Biology.
What are ...
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How can i know the fees of the publication
I need to find the journals that don't take fees for publication in Elsevier. how can I know if the journal I find needs fees or not, please?
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Can I opt for traditional manuscript submission instead of open access in a journal that offers open access?
I am a Ph.D. student and I wrote my first paper. The term open access is a new concept for me. I already watched YouTube videos about the subject, so I now understand that you have to pay a fee to the ...
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A predatory journal? [duplicate]
I sent my manuscript to a journal which they accepted for publication without peer review. They asked for a 1000 euro service fee. I requested a withdrawal instead, to which they replied asking ...
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How to search the publication fee of a journal [closed]
What's the correct place on a journal webpage to show the publication fee?
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Student requesting to cover/reduce Mandatory Overlength Page Charge for IEEE Transaction
I along with my previous Professor had submitted a journal article to an IEEE Transaction. It got accepted now while I no longer work with him. Our accepted article has a page length 15 and the ...
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Why did journal subscription prices increase by 25% between 2013 and 2017? (vs. 5% for US inflation)
I read on https://journals.ebsco.com/products-services/explore-content :
Why did journal subscription prices increase by 25% between 2013 and 2017?
That's much more than the US inflation (~5.1% ...
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Paid publish fees two years late, can journal reject my paper?
I submitted a paper to a journal. They finally accepted it and asked me to pay a fee. However, due to my economic condition, I was not able to pay the fee.
After 2 years, I finally payed the fee, but ...
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What is the benefit of 'voluntary page charges'?
There are quite a few journals which ask for voluntary page charges. Some may do for the whole journal and most for the first couple of pages.
Take IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Security for ...
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Publication fee paid, but no response from editor
I submitted a paper to a journal, which was accepted for publishing. I made the payment and signed the copyright form. I enquired the state of the transaction of the bank and the amount was credited ...
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Are there any known Universities that refuse to pay for paywall access to academic journals?
Are there any known Universities that refuse to pay for paywall access (for moral, intellectual, inability to pay, or other reasons) to academic journal articles?
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How to interpret quality of computer science journals that charge publication fees?
I usually publish my research work at conferences in the field of Computer Science, I do not have so many papers and the question that I am doing here it might sound foolish for some (or maybe a lot) ...
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Why pay a fee to have your article (in a subscription-based journal) made open access when you can just put the preprint on arXiv?
Upon acceptance, some journals offer open access through an optional fee. This model differs from the usual open access model in which all authors pay a fee and all accepted papers are accessible ...
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Will publisher waive fee if currently unaffiliated?
I am in between jobs and want to send a quick note to a journal. However, I do not have any lab to pay the ridiculous publishing fees, is there any way I can ask the journal to waive the publishing ...
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What can I do if I submitted a paper believing a journal to be free for authors, and after acceptance I'm asked to pay a fee?
Reading about a journal A, I understood that authors can submit papers free of charge to this journal. I have submitted a paper and received a letter of acceptence with a bill. The editor said that I ...
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