In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before and/or after a paper is published in a journal.
Publishing is a costly exercise that you don’t think about until after you’ve got your funding and data and written the paper, but it is arguably the most important part of research…what good is your data if you cannot share it?
Especially for PhD students you will often have to publish in access only journals - these journals are free to publish in but only those with a subscription can view it. These days most journals will allow you to submit a pre-print of your work to a server, this is a great option as it means you still get the beautiful published article but can also share the ‘not-so-pretty’ version as well. However this ruling is not universal among journal so make sure you check the journal requirements before submiting a preprint!
Preprint servers will assign your article a DOI, meaning you can easily reference your work while it is going through the peer review process. Once published the DOI will usually transfer automatically to the published version. You may find that for some of the academic/publication databases you will have to manually ‘merge’ the preprint and published entries.
For more info on preprints see here and here.
An excellent article by Sarabipour et al. 2019 will be useful to help convince your co-authors on the value of submitting to a preprint server!
arXiv - preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Research papers, that deal with original results that have not been published before.
Short communications, which show preliminary results of interest. It is not necessary to follow the standard article structure recommended for research papers. Recommended length is 1,200 words at most.
Discussions, which are articles discussing works previously published in the journal.
Opinions/position papers, which give an opiniated view of the author on a particular theme and may present new challenging concepts.
Letters to the Editor, which are articles shortly discussing works previously published in the journal. It is not necessary to follow the standard article structure recommended for research papers. Recommended length is 1,200 words at most.
Review Articles, which are state-of-the-art examination of a given topic. Review articles are either invited by the editor-in-chief or spontaneously submitted.
Technical notes, which is technological information of interest to the readership of the journal.
Meeting Reports, which report on meeting and congresses in the topics of interest to the readership of IGE.
Book Reviews, on books whose topics are of interest to the readership of IGE.
Special issue submissions. They can be any of the types listed above, upon invitation by the guest editor. Spontaneous submissions in the framework of a special issue are also accepted, provided that they fit the scope of the SI.
‘Succinctus’ - The journal offers an avenue for publishing succinct papers that describe significant research findings of broad interest. Articles are limited to 3,000 words, not divided into sections, and contain not more than three display items (figures or tables). The manuscript should be marked Succinctus on the top left-hand corner of the title page. The first page should show title, author and address details. A short Abstract of not more than 100 words in the same style as for full papers plus up to six Keywords should follow. The body of the paper should be written with a minimum number of paragraphs and unstructured (i.e. no headings).
Open access only - USD 2,200. Discounts avilable for supporting society membbers (10%, USD 1,980), or for authors referred with peer review reports from another Wiley journal (20% off, USD 1,760)
The International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
The gold open access publication fee for this journal is USD 1838, excluding taxes.There is a 20% discount off the open access publication fee for members of the Australian Society for Parasitology (USD 1460).
Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences)^
Publication is free for research articles which are under 6 printed pages when published in the journal. We can consider articles that exceed this limit, up to 10 printed pages of the journal, however page charges will then apply. We currently charge EUR 200 per page or part page (plus VAT where applicable). Review articles do not incur page charges but are subject to length restrictions.
Authors may have their article made freely available to all, immediately upon publication. Article processing chargers for open access are USD 1,260 for Royal Society Open Science.
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Regular research articles: USD 1,590 per article up to 6 pages, with no additional fees for color figures or SI. Any fraction of a page over 6 and up to 9 will cost an additional USD 375 per page, and any fraction of a page over 9 and up to 12 will cost an additional USD 500 per page.Articles longer than 12 pages are not permitted.
Brief Report articles: USD 2,200 per article, with no additional fees for color figures, SI, or open access. All Brief Report articles are published open access.
Open access: Authors of research articles may pay a surcharge to make their article freely available through the open access option. All articles are free within 6 months of publication. Corresponding authors from institutions with current-year site licenses will be assessed a discounted open access fee of USD 1,300 (compared to our regular fee of USD 1,700) for a CC BY-NC-ND license. The CC BY license is available for authors whose funders require it, for a fee of USD 2,200.
Subscription - Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our access programs. No publication fee.
Gold open access - Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse, fee USD 2,820.
Subscription - Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our access programs. No publication fee.
Gold open access - Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse, fee USD 2,290.
Subscription - Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our access programs. No publication fee.
Gold open access - Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse, fee USD 2,290.
Subscription - Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our access programs. No publication fee.
Gold open access - Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse, fee USD 1,990.