Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals

Erratum for Schloss et al., “Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals”

Scientific societies provide numerous services to the scientific enterprise, including convening meetings, publishing journals, developing scientific programs, advocating for science, promoting education, providing cohesion and direction for the discipline, and more. For most scientific societies, publishing provides revenues that support these important activities. In recent decades, the propo...

Scientific Society Journals: By Scientists for Science.

Comparing the Status of Publishing Scientific Journals in State Universities and Islamic Azad University Units

This descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and Islamic Azad Universities. Statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.Magiran.com. Required information were collected using a questionnaire. Results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...

Build infrastructure in publishing scientific journals to benefit medical scientists.

There is urgent need for medical journals to optimize their publishing processes and strategies to satisfy the huge need for medical scientists to publish their articles, and then obtain better prestige and impact in scientific and research community. These strategies include optimizing the process of peer-review, utilizing open-access publishing models actively, finding ways of saving costs an...

Scientific journals in Brazil and Spain: Alternative publishing models

This paper describes the situation of high-quality journals in Brazil and Spain, with emphasis on the distribution models used. It presents the general characteristics (age, type of publisher and theme) and analyses the distribution model by studying the type of format (print or digital), the type of access (open access or subscription) and the technology platform used. The 549 journals analyze...