Mary Wilson
Well-known member
30/01/23
By: Francis Kokutse
[ACCRA] Researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature and 36 other Nature researchjournals, as the company expands its open access waiver policies to include its flagship titles.
Under open access (OA) publishing, readers can access published papers for free but researchers or their institutions have to pay article processing charges to get their manuscripts published.
In the past, it meant that scientists from low- and middle-income countries were effectively excluded, as there is little institutional support to cover article processing charges, which sometimes total more than their yearly salaries.
“[Article processing charges can be] equivalent to about two years’ salary of a full professor in Nigeria and many other African countries,” explained Segun Fatumo, an associate professor of genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics at the Medical Research Centre/Uganda Virus Research Institute.
... Marcelo Aizen, a professor of ecology at the National University of Comahue in Argentina, agreed with Fatumo. He said monthly salaries for top scientists in Argentina round up to about US$1,000, and annual grants round up to US$3,000 so they are simply not able to afford the publication costs of most prestigious academic journals.
“In some cases, you can still negotiate a waiver, which in fact puts you in a quite humiliating position, but this is not even an option for many journals,” explained Aizen. ...
https://www.scidev.net/global/news/nature-article-charges-waived-for-global-south-authors/
By: Francis Kokutse
[ACCRA] Researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature and 36 other Nature researchjournals, as the company expands its open access waiver policies to include its flagship titles.
Under open access (OA) publishing, readers can access published papers for free but researchers or their institutions have to pay article processing charges to get their manuscripts published.
In the past, it meant that scientists from low- and middle-income countries were effectively excluded, as there is little institutional support to cover article processing charges, which sometimes total more than their yearly salaries.
“[Article processing charges can be] equivalent to about two years’ salary of a full professor in Nigeria and many other African countries,” explained Segun Fatumo, an associate professor of genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics at the Medical Research Centre/Uganda Virus Research Institute.
... Marcelo Aizen, a professor of ecology at the National University of Comahue in Argentina, agreed with Fatumo. He said monthly salaries for top scientists in Argentina round up to about US$1,000, and annual grants round up to US$3,000 so they are simply not able to afford the publication costs of most prestigious academic journals.
“In some cases, you can still negotiate a waiver, which in fact puts you in a quite humiliating position, but this is not even an option for many journals,” explained Aizen. ...
https://www.scidev.net/global/news/nature-article-charges-waived-for-global-south-authors/