New season kick-off for our free Open Access indexing competition
The new season delivered an excellent round of applications to kick-start our free Open Access indexing competition for this academic year.
These journals fulfil the double challenge of publishing high-quality Open Access research while charging no fees (APCs) to their authors. As such, they provide significant contributions to advancing open scholarship as well as a more democratic science from month to month.
To help these valuable contributions to the scholarly record to become more visible, we offer our winners a Featured Collection for one year for free. Collections are a specialized and customized promotional service to increase the visibility of selected journals within our discovery platform, also used to track and measure usage of research articles.
We are pleased to announce three new journals from across Europe that will be integrated into, and promoted on, ScienceOpen. These are:
KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry
Publisher: Hungarian Communication Studies Association
Country of publisher: Hungary
KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. It consists of useful supplements and reasonable alternatives to current models and theories and features theoretical researches that help to understand better, or deconceptualize the understanding of communication and the media.
As an important area in communication, current issues from the field of scholarly communication are also covered.
The Role of the Anonymous Voice in Post-Publication Peer Review Versus Traditional Peer Review
The Internet and the Nigerian Woman: A Case of Female Undergraduates
We asked Dr. János Tóth, Editor-in-Chief of KOME, about why they chose to enter the competition. He said:
We noticed the call when we were uploading the content of our most recent issue to DOAJ. To be completely honest, at first glance we were not sure about how our journal would find its place among your content -most of the indexed journals are from hard science fields-, but the interface looked very appealing, user-friendly, and there were a lot of additional options not seen on competitors’ services. We are constantly looking for new opportunities to reach toward international audiences, and, as someone who can already speak from experience, ScienceOpen seems to be in every respect an intelligent tool capable to help us achieve this goal.
SciPost Physics
Publisher: Stichting SciPost
Country of publisher: The Netherlands
SciPost Physics is a premium-quality, Open Access, peer-reviewed refereed Journal for the general field of Physics.
It aims at providing scientists with a publishing platform in which uncompromising scientific quality meets the highest achievable standards of open accessibility, with a resolutely international outlook.
Some of our favourite articles include:
The Infrared Physics of Bad Theories
Strongly Interacting Light Dark Matter
Irish Journal of Paramedicine
Publisher: Irish College of Paramedics
Country of publisher: Ireland
The Irish Journal of Paramedicine is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, international journal dedicated to advancing and promoting the science of prehospital clinical care, research, education, policy, management and operational delivery.
The Irish Journal of Paramedicine is the official journal of the Irish College of Paramedics, the professional body for Irish prehospital emergency care practitioners.
Here is a little teaser from their selected articles:
Identifying the barriers to female leadership in Paramedicine
On shift simulation in aeromedical operations – making it work
Dip(ping) into Foreign Waters…Irish Paramedics’ Royal College Experience
Congratulations to all of our winners!
Publishers and journals working with ScienceOpen benefit from increased visibility, usage and branding for their indexed content. Featured collections open up journal content for:
- Multidimensional search with 20 filter and sort options
- Commenting and recommendations functionalities
- Sharing functionalities to promote journals on other social media platforms
- Post-publication peer review
- A range of article, journal, and publisher level usage statistics to help monitoring the impact of the journal and performance assessment
- Research context via reference and citation extraction. Embedding articles into our citation and recommendation network through references adds a new dimension to research context and thus grants the journal content the privilege of better visibility and higher citation frequency.
If you run a free to publish Open Access journal, participate in the competition today and get indexed on ScienceOpen for free! You can find the application form here.
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