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Publishers strongly support the OSTP guidelines

Lighting a better path forward for scholarly publishing

The peer-review system, which relies on unpaid volunteers, has long been stressed. COVID-19 is making it worse—a lot worse. Possible solutions include paying reviewers or limiting revise-and-resubmits, but are these just Band-Aids on bigger structural problems?

 E-Mail SAN FRANCISCO -- PLOS today announced that it will launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021, all with an emphasis on directly addressing the most pressing health and environmental issues facing society today. Our approach is to co-create - with researchers at the forefront of these issues - inclusive outlets to address ongoing challenges. Even though Open Access is now widely adopted, and Open Science is advancing, current frameworks exclude many voices and communiti...

Mar. 1, 2021 , 10:45 AM For many busy working scientists, receiving yet another invitation from an academic journal to peer review yet another manuscript can trigger groans. The work is time-consuming, and rewards can seem intangible. What’s more, the reviewers work for free, even as the large commercial publishers that operate many journals earn hefty profits. But despite occasional, exasperated cries of “I should get paid for this,” scientists have soldiered on. Many cite a sense of dut...