Directory of Open Access Journals
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As end user you can already merge all this with their browser extensions, but it could be cool if DOAJ embedded those comments and replication counts for the benefit of all visitors.
This will be a helpful to limit the choices to where it should be published.
Thanks, noted!
While I wish it were different, there is basically no incentive to publish in any of the journals in my field unless your research matches one of the extremely specific journals. I hate publishers probably far more than the average person (I love paying $2,500 out of my grant to get a paper published, only for the production team that has been outsourced to India botch the file conversion, put it online without my approval, and ghost me for two months!), but few serious academics in my department would consider any of these.
Prestige can charge a premium, and without prestige your career is a non-starter sadly.
I want one subscription for all of gate-kept STEM (or maybe one each for tech, for engineering and math, and one for science and medicine), then be able to just link and read as though using Zotero, Mendeley, or Papers but with access to all the things.
As a corporation, journal subscriptions are nominal relative to, say, Gartner. For academics, you're covered in budgets. But for oneself as an individual, I cannot find a reasonable source.
If it's not on Sci-Hub (happened to me only once), email the author and upload it there afterwards.
Also, preprints are getting ever more common. Manuscripts get uploaded to preprint servers like Arxiv.org before being peer reviewed, and usually updated with the peer reviewed version once accepted in a subscription journal.
No. Many of the journals listed will have some OA papers, while other papers will be paywalled. There are few journals (like Nature) that are entirely free to read sadly.
https://sci-hub.ee/ is the way. Just give it a DOI and you're good to go.
I don’t have a permanent post in academia and am often away from funded positions while I do other things with my life, but I remain interested in my field and I publish the occasional paper. I can do that because I don’t need to pay to publish in my field. But OA journals that are pay-to-publish discourage contributions from those who aren’t lucky enough to have a grant-soliciting apparatus behind them (or lots of money to pay out of their own pockets).
However, these are frequently the same journal! It depends on the author's budget which model it follows.
The final model requires $0 APC and all articles are free to read for anyone (this is probably the HN ideal--as well as my own) but these are virtually non-existent since peer review/editing is time and labor intensive.
My own rule of thumb is that I have to to three peer-reviews for every one paper I publish, since my paper will have three reviewers (usually). That way I can stay at review/submission equilibrium!
I actually got sent my first outright awful paper recently, and there wasn’t in the end much of an onus on me. The flaws of the paper were so blatant that I could simply tell the editor that the entire premise was unsound without having to go into much detail, and the editor understood.