Publication

[Matthias Bock]

Hi,

has the publication of DIYbio results been a topic on this list ?

As most of you know, scientists usually write and try to publish

an article in a scientific journal about interesting findings...

I just came across this one:

  http://f1000research.com/

It seems, you don't need to be a "professional" scientist to

submit an article or data there.

Is anybody aware of a journal, dedicated to the DIYbio community ?

Where everybody can submit their experiences and findings,

which presents interesting experiments to do at home, presents

news having an impact on the community etc.etc. ... ?

Cheers, Matthias

[ruphos]

PLOS is fairly friendly. There are several academic researchers that are planning to do initial publication and interactive peer review via blog, which I think is a great idea and would really embrace the DIYbio philosophy. Publication credits are still a big part of the field though, so this may be a bit harder for someone planning on continuing in academia.

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[Patrik D'haeseleer]

There's a journal of citizen science in the works, but I'm not sure it's ready for public consumption yet. Let me know if you have something to publish though, and I can put you in touch.

Hm - and look what a Google search turned up right now:

http://www.journalnetwork.org/journals/science-general/citizen-science/citizen-science-innovation.html

"The International Journal of Citizen Science & Innovation is a new kind of peer-reviewed journal, published through the IJN submission review portal. Its aims and scope pertain to citizen science, or scientific inquiry performed by non-professional scientists, and related topics. The review process is sourced to multidisciplinary editorial teams. This helps to minimize time delays associated with the editorial decision process, while keeping standard author fees as low as possible. Acceptance is based fully on scholarly merit, without language or institutional bias, in keeping with IJN's mission. Submissions in languages other than English are welcome, as are student submissions. The journal is fully open-access."

Anyone know anything about this one?

Patrik

[Bryan Bishop]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a journal of citizen science in the works, but I'm not sure it's
> ready for public consumption yet. Let me know if you have something to
> publish though, and I can put you in touch.

There was also Citizen Science Quarterly, but then nobody bothered to
write anything after a while? Jacob could spill the beans if he's
around.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507

[jarlemag]

A relatively low-cost alternative could be PeerJ (https://peerj.com), which just started publishing.
According to their site, for a $99 lifetime subscription fee you can publish one article per year, or unlimited publications for $299.
They only accept "research articles" (not reviews, etc.), and peer-reviewer comments are published alongside the article. Also, 

"PeerJ evaluates articles based only on an objective determination of scientific and methodological soundness, not on subjective determinations of 'impact,' 'novelty' or 'interest'.

For what it's worth, one of the co-founder was previously running PLOS One. They also just launched a preprint service.

Regards,
-J

[Josiah Zayner]

If you have work that you think is of general scientific interest and could survive some peer review. PLoS One says that they will wave publication costs.

http://www.plosone.org/static/information

"Our fee waiver policy, whereby PLOS offers to waive or further reduce the payment required of authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication, remains in effect. Editors and reviewers have no access to whether authors are able to pay; decisions to publish are only based on editorial criteria."