Re: Rewarding reviewers

[Gavin Baker <gavin@gavinbaker.com>]

Mark Funk wrote:

> The editorial in the March issue of Nature Nanotechnology (3#3, 
> 2008, p,119: "Who'd be a referee?") talks about the efforts 
> that journal reviewers put in: the average review takes about 
> 8.6 hours and is completed within 3-4 weeks, The last two 
> paragraphs talk about changes in publishing, particularly open 
> access. The last sentence caught my eye:
>
> "For a fee, some publishers (but not Nature Publishing Group) 
> are willing to make a paper open access, but authors of such 
> papers would certainly be justified in asking to have the fees 
> waived in return for refereeing."
>
> Does any hybrid OA publisher reward their reviewers with 
> waiving OA fees? It seems like the least they could do.
BioMed Central offers a discount for reviewers: 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/apcfaq#discount

BMC is a fee-based OA publisher, but not hybrid OA.

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