All fields of science and technology have made tremendous progress in the past few decades which will continue to grow in the 21 st century. This puts significant burden on existing routes for disseminating new research developments. Present predominant publication models are based on printed journals and restricted subscription-based access to their published content. This considerably limits the speed at which the latest research reaches interested scientists and the public, and most often it means that by the time one reads an article, the presented data may
already be a few months old.
Thus there is increasing pressure to provide new and accelerated ways to publish scientific and technological advances. The advent of internet has brought a new dimension to scientific publishing and has the ability to overcome the conventional publication and access hurdles by delivering scientific results at a speed never before realised. We believe that to meet demands of the new scientific world, internet-based publishing providing free, immediate online open access to published material is the way forward for the 21 st century.
With more and more publishers moving into open access publishing this trend is likely to grow in the future making open access publishing a more attractive proposition than journals that demand page charges yet have a restricted subscriber readership.
In our publishing model:-
- Authors pay a small charge – only a small fraction of what they spent on their research – for publishing in our journals.
- We provide an immediate free access to published articles through the journal website and/or through a central electronic repository.
- Anyone anywhere in the world is free to use, distribute and print reasonable number of copies of published articles for academic and non-commercial purposes.
Why should authors pay publication charges?
Publishers are unable to recover costs involved in free-access publishing that they would normally do through journal and article subscriptions. Therefore, authors are asked to pay a small publication charge for publishing in our journals. Our publication charges under the open access publication model are not for profit, yet highly reasonable, and aim only to make the publishing model self-sustainable and progressive. However, we fully appreciate that not all authors may have adequate funds available to pay for publication charges - in particular those from the DEVELOPING NATIONS. Therefore, we offer considerable discount on publication charges in such cases and, in exceptional cases, a complete waiver of publication
charges.
Please join us in our commitment to advancing latest scientific research to every corner of the world and support us by sending your articles under the open access publishing model.
