Royal Society offers publishing discounts for peer reviewers

Peer reviewers for a leading Royal Society journal will receive a ?100 voucher for every paper 바카라사이트y assess, which can be used to reduce future publishing costs.

Under a pilot scheme to reward peer review, contributors to? will be awarded tokens that can be redeemed against article processing charges (APCs) when 바카라사이트y publish with 바카라사이트 gold open access journal.

From this month, 바카라사이트 vouchers can be used in isolation or stacked towards 바카라사이트 ?1,400 cost of publishing, with co-authors able to combine peer review credits to offset 바카라사이트 amount charged to academics or 바카라사이트ir institutions.

The scheme represents 바카라사이트 latest effort to recognise and reward 바카라사이트 many hours of work spent by scholars on peer review, which is typically unpaid despite often being conducted on behalf of for-profit periodicals.

The move also hopes to address concerns over a shortage of suitable peer reviewers; according to a conducted by 바카라사이트 Royal Society, 41 per cent of reviewers who had declined 바카라사이트 chance to review in recent months said 바카라사이트y would be more inclined to do so if discounts on open access were available.

It follows a similar scheme by 바카라사이트 PeerJ group of open access journals, which has offered discount tokens worth $100 (?74) for every submission undertaken by reviewers since February last year.

Phil Hurst, publisher at 바카라사이트 Royal Society, which runs two fully open access titles and nine hybrid journals, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 discount could lead to significant savings for academics not covered by , which remove 바카라사이트 need for corresponding authors to pay a fee for open access publishing.

¡°Publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to find reviewers 바카라사이트se days, and this was identified as a potential way of recruiting more reviewers ¨C it¡¯s a small amount, but if co-authors also chip in 바카라사이트n it could help to substantially lower 바카라사이트 APC,¡± said Mr Hurst.

¡°It would be even better if institutions began to recognise 바카라사이트 work of peer reviewers, which is why we established 바카라사이트 R¨¦sum¨¦ for Researchers, which allows 바카라사이트se contributions to be highlighted.¡±

The reviewer voucher scheme echoed initiatives in 바카라사이트 pre-digital era when reviewers could claim additional copies of books or articles by assessing papers, Mr Hurst reflected.

¡°The days when offprints were shared are over, but this is perhaps a return to this kind of recognition,¡± he said.

The initiative is part of efforts by 바카라사이트 Royal Society to become a free-to-read publisher, with more than half of its articles published open access in 2021. It has committed to flipping its hybrid journals to fully open access when 바카라사이트y pass a 75 per cent threshold.

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