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Sunday, December 14, 2008

New OA journal of ecology and evolution

Ideas in Ecology and Evolution is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by Queen's University. (Thanks to Bora Zivkovic.) See the inaugural editorial for information on some of the unique aspects of the journal, including this:
... Authors pay a submission fee (currently $400 [Canadian]) at the time of submission. From these funds, two referees are paid (currently $150 each). If the paper is accepted for publication, authors are charged an additional processing fee (currently $300) to cover handling and publication costs. ...