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Friday, November 07, 2008

New OA journal of climate science

The Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by the Institute of Global Environment and Society. The journal operates a companion forum, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems - Discussion, for posting and discussing papers before they have undergone peer review. Both are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. (Thanks to the U.S. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program.)

See the journal's policy on author fees:

Submission to and posting on JAMES-D, the open discussion venue for JAMES, is free of charge.

If your submission is accepted for publication in JAMES following formal peer review, you will be asked to pay a publication fee of $50 U.S. per typeset page. ... Authors should remit payment promptly; however, nonpayment of fees will not necessarily preclude publication. We do not want to prevent the publication of worthy work.

Upon billing you will have an opportunity to request a waiver of the charges. Authors whose work is supported by funding sources that include monies for publication should not request a waiver of charges.