Journal Author

1. What is Versita Open ?
 

Versita Open is a distribution platform for journals, which Versita publishes in Open Access models. The two Open Access models supported by Versita are author-pays model and publisher-pays model.

All journals at Versita Open offer unrestricted access to readers and libraries. They are peer-reviewed and publish exclusively or predominantly in English. As a rule, authors retain copyright in their works. Versita Open delivers article abstracts to many abstracting databases and delivers full-text to digital repositories and distributors.

2. What is the difference between the author-pays and publisher-pays models ?

In the publisher-pays model, neither the reader pays for access to the content, nor the author pays for publishing in the journal, thus the publishing costs are borne by the journal owner. In the author-pays model, readers do not pay for access to the content, and publishing costs are borne by the organization to which the author belongs.

If you want to submit a manuscript to one of the journals available at Versita Open, please visit the journal webpage and check if the journal charges publication fees.

3. Why publish in Versita Open journals ?

Here are the advantages of publishing in a journal available at Versita Open:

• Open Access means unrestricted access to published articles. It brings more readers, more citations, and greater awareness of your publication.
• Versita Open journals promise fair, fast and comprehensive peer-review.
• Most Versita Open journals allow the author to retain copyright. Please visit the journal webpage and check if this applies to the journal of your choice.
• Versita applies to all applicable abstracting databases to index each journal, and then supply the abstracts to them, so the abstract of your article will be widely findable.
• Versita deposits the abstract of your article at CrossRef, so citations to your article can have an active link, which can be clicked and lead to the abstract of your article.
• Versita will send (or make available otherwise) the full-text of your article to numerous repositories (like PubMed Central), distributors and libraries worldwide.
• Versita Open is based on MetaPress hosting platform, which lets readers enjoy all the functionalities offered my modern publishing technology solutions. Journals Readers can, for instance, enjoy reference linking. Most references in your article can become active links, which can be clicked to jump to abstracts of cited articles.
• some journals at Versita Open use Editorial Manager online submission and peer-review system, which is used by more than 4,000 journals, so is known to many authors and reviewers.

4. Are journals at Versita Open peer-reviewed ?

All journals available at Versita Open are peer-reviewed. Except submissions that are out of scope or of unacceptably low standard, as a rule, all submissions are reviewed by at least two experts in the field. The editors declare fair, fast and comprehensive peer-review.

5. Do Versita Open journals have Impact Factors ?

Many of the journals published at Versita Open are newly established journals. So they have not got Impact factors yet. For any journal to have an Impact factor, it must have been tracked by Thomson Scientific for three years. Here are some of Versita Open journals that already have Impact Factors:

Acta Biologica Cracoviensia s. Botanica 0.586
Acta Pharmaceutica 1.312
Acta Physica Slovaca 3.250
Advances in Medical Sciences 0.798
Archives of Acoustics 0.504
Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 0.826
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences 0.945
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica 0.902
Geologica Carpatica 0.909
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 0.794
Journal of Applied Biomedicine 1.689
Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics 0.553
Metrology and Measurement Systems 0.587
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences 0.507
Polish Polar Research 0.767
Radiology and Oncology 1.970

6. What does it cost to publish in Versita Open journal ?

For the vast majority of Versita Open journals it costs nothing. Because those journals are published in the publisher-pays model, neither the reader pays for access to the content, nor the author pays for publishing in the journal, as the publishing costs are borne by the journal owner. If you want to submit a manuscript to one of the journals available at Versita Open, please visit the journal webpage and check if the journal charges publication fees.

Those Versita Open journals, which are published in author-pays model, apply Article Processing Charges (APC), which are paid by the author’s affiliate institution or another funding body. The APC amount depends on the journal and should be checked before submitting a manuscript. Each charging journal has a special waiver policy for authors from low income countries. Waivers are also granted on case-by-case basis.

7. Why should I have to pay to publish my paper ?

It costs money to produce a peer-reviewed, edited, and formatted article for online publication, and to host it on a server that's accessible around the clock. This cost is small relative to the funding for the research project as a whole (usually around 1%), but it serves the crucial final step of disseminating a completed body of work to the scientific community. Several major funding sources have explicitly endorsed the open access model for publishing, so it may not be too hard for you to obtain funding for the Article Processing Charge.

8. Do authors have to assign copyright ?

As a rule, authors retain copyright. However, please visit the journal webpage and check if this applies to the journal of your choice. Most Versita Open journals are published on the basis of Creative Commons license.