June 29, 2020

  

 

It's time to say "no" to the exploitation of researchers as free reviewers for paid and non-open scientific journal publishers.

Many scientific articles are currently published in subscription journals and locked behind paywalls. This model impedes research and diverts public funding to parasitic publishers, while relying almost entirely on the unpaid work of researchers.

Researchers believe that science should evolve towards a different publishing model in which all scientific publications are freely available to readers as open access, without charging authors unfair prices.

RESEARCHERS:NO FREE VIEW?
NO REVIEW!

For this reason, they will avoid serving as peer reviewers for venues that do not make publicly available the research that we review.

  Instead, researchers will give priority to open-access venues in how we allocate our reviewing time and organizational efforts.

Read the https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/ for more about open access and this pledge and add your signature.