MrGunn on Science AMA Series: I'm Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000Research, an Open Science publishing platform designed to turn traditional publishing models on their head. The journal is dead – discuss, and AMA - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Oct 21, 2014
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"The best examples in this space (PLOS ONE, eLife, PeerJ, Scientific Reports, and F1000Research) keep a strict firewall between editorial and financial. No one involved in the acceptance decision knows if the manuscript has paid full fare or qualified under a fee waiver scheme. They also use academic editors and reviewers, who are external to the journal, to give reviews and make recommendations, which insulates them from some bias."
- Mr. Gunn