Genetics Selection Evolution - GSE moves to Open Access (OA) publishing

GSE moves to Open Access (OA) publishing

From January 2009, GSE becomes an “Open Access” (OA) journal. It will be the first OA journal dedicated to original research on genetics and selection in farm and experimental animals.

OA is defined as: free, immediate, permanent and full-text online access, for any user, to peer reviewed research. Authors retain copyright and grant anyone the right to copy, distribute or display the work provided that it is correctly cited.

Some of the expected advantages of OA are:

increased visibility, wider audience and greater impact,
accelerated publication,
increased citations,
enhanced availability of online search tools.

GSE will remain the property of the INRA and there will be no change in the journal’s title, scope of interests and editorial management and in the peer-review process.

The cost of OA publication is a much-discussed question. The economic basis of OA is that authors are charged a fee to have their work published instead of the readers to access articles.

To facilitate the transition to OA and to reduce author fees, during 2009 GSE will act as a sponsor and charge authors only 750 euros for each accepted article. This fee is significantly less than the cost price of OA publication and is thus advantageous compared to that of other OA journals.

All manuscripts submitted after April 1st, 2008 will be processed as OA papers.