Are there journals that publish research for free or for reasonable fees within the scope of parasites for publishers such as Elsevier , Springer or Wiley ? as the majority of journal fee for this scope range from 1000 to 3000 $ .
When you're talking about open access, I am not aware of any respectable publisher that takes peer review seriously with article processing charges in the triple digits, if it goes down there, the publisher usually rings the alarm bells for "predatory and worthless".
If you want to publish something in a good journal without paying for it, you will have to resort to the classical subscription-based method which may result in the paradox situation that your own institution may not have access to its own publication, but at least it would be out.
You could check out in advance whether the journal allows for the simultaneous upload of preprints, so if someone can't access the article for financial reasons, you could at least point them to the preprint.
Hello Prof Nagham Y ALBAYATI
I would suggest you might consider a journal on microbiology rather than specifically about parasites. Maybe that might help - and it gives a much larger range of possibilities, as you know. Or do you have any bad experiences with this approach?
Hi, I've found that the MedCrave journals have reasonable fees, and they also have quadruple blind (2 sets of double blind) peer review.
https://medcraveonline.com/journals
They have so many areas of interest, and I highly encourage people to publish there because once done it is open access to all, and so long as your science is good/excellent you have a great opportunity to publish there with minimal cost (to cover their publication needs).
I do not wish to go on a rant. Obviously, I "grew up" publishing in ACS journals, but now I am completely against and do not submit to them. I hate it when peers in the field may work for an establishment that cannot afford to view their own articles.
Amy J Austin Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can see MedCrave is not member of the DOAJ or the OASPA and also none of their journals is indexed in Web of Science or Scopus, or is there one?
That would essentially mean that publishing there equals having a privately stored document on a server, it will probably be ignored from any public discussion.
But yeah, the "journal pricing crisis" will remain an annoying topic for quite a while. Here in Germany, all universities and publicly funded research institutions have cancelled their subscriptions to Elsevier for that reason.
Jürgen Weippert My publications there were certainly not ignored, one in particular. Good day, Amy
I would also like to state that articles published there are easily found by search engines such as Google, laugh if you must; but that is probably among the most used search engines even for scholarly articles. Moreover, my MedCrave articles were found by ResearchGate itself when I signed up, no trouble.
I have become a board member of some MedCrave journals, contacted by people all over the world who have been unsuccessfully treated for rare neurological conditions because of my published work there (for which I could give no medical advice but could discuss scientific background and my personal situation), and have been invited as a keynote speaker to give lectures at their symposia all over the world.
I would like the author of this question, Nagham Y ALBAYATI , to know this information about MedCrave despite the criticisms of Jürgen Weippert above so that this person can make an informed decision knowing what may lay in store should publications with MedCrave be successful there.
Thank you, Amy
Dear Nagham Y ALBAYATI , I would recommend you publish in a Subscription model, which is free. However, you are giving all the copyrights of your text to the publisher, as Jürgen Weippert mentioned.
Why don't you use the Journal Finder system of that publisher? All aforementioned publishers by you have this system, check it out.
Elsevier - https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
Wiley - https://journalfinder.wiley.com/search?type=match
Springer - https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
MDPI - https://www.mdpi.com/about/journalselector
I would advise you to search for a suitable journal, and check if it is open access (you have to pay) or if it is subscription or hybrid mode (Various Elsevier journals now have the mixed way).
Kind regards,
Gustavo
Dear Nagham, I suggest you publishing in IJITIS journal with DOI, DOAJ and fast publishing time, free of charge.
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