QUT researchers are invited to submit manuscripts to any of the PLoS journals, listed below, in 2008 and the author-fee per accepted article will be automatically allocated by QUT Library (as approved by the Library and the University’s Research and Innovation Committee).
The Library has set aside US$10,000 to pay for author submission fees to PLoS journals as a trial for 2008.
Since the trial was established there have been no submissions from QUT to PLoS open access journals so that full amount is still available.
QUT is an institutional member of the PLoS, a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource. As an open access publisher, PLoS works under the model that all PLoS research material published is peer-reviewed, immediately available online and deposited in the the free public archive PubMed Central. There are no charges for access and no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use, as long as the author(s) and source are cited, as specified by the Creative Commons Attribution License given at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Why publish in PLoS journals?
i) wide dissemination: articles will always be freely available online, from PLoS and from PubMed Central.
Your work will have the broadest possible audience—the entire world. And recent studies suggest that open access articles get downloaded and cited more frequently.
ii) pre-submission inquiries: PLoS are happy to look at abstracts prior to submission and will advise you within 48 hours whether they will consider the full paper.
iii) rapid publication: The time between acceptance and online publication is normally around 6 weeks, and can be expedited under special circumstances.
iii) Editors’ Summary: Each research article is accompanied by an Editors’ Summary written by PLoS editors.
iv) no need to order reprints: The open access license means that anyone can reprint and distribute our content, so long as they credit the author and cite the original source.
v) high impact: 2007 impact factors for PLoS journals, as measured by Thomson Reuters, are given below. Rankings indicate PLoS journals rank very highly in given subject areas.
vi) publicity: PLoS send out weekly press releases on papers published.
PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal featuring works of significance that further our understanding of living systems at all scales through the application of computational methods. It is the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology.
JCR Impact Factor 2007 : 6.2
Ranked 4 out of 60 in subject category Biochemical Research Methods : Ranked 1 out of 26 in subject category Mathematical & Computational Biology
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