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Comment on Defining Platinum Open Access by Kenneth Mitton

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One of the first journals ever formed to be paperless from the start is Molecular Vision, which began in 1995. Way back, in internet years. Now this respected Journal has almost 20 full years of publishing under its belt and it continues to provide NO-FEE publishing to authors. I dare say, they are a gold-standard example of how to publish open access and the editorial board includes top research scientists and academics in the vision science community. These are men and women who have also served as executive of the two largest vision research societies (ARVO and ISER) and are Fellows of ARVO (FARVO).

Its likely best just use plain english and state NO-FEE publishing if that is the case. As a reviewer and an author for Molecular Vision, I can attest that my paper submissions get good reviews, and they are real true peer reviews. Usually I need to revise and resubmit.

I dare say that my colleagues at Emory University who began Molecular Vision were quite “visionary”, and I recall many scientists at the time discussing if a paperless journal would fly. Well, not only have all the older respected paper journals moved into online publishing, many of them have now dropped their paper print versions.

In today’s (2014) universe of bogus open access for-profit journals, it is nice to remember that there are excellent journals that are open-access, and cost-free to authors, with the support of wonderful sponsors who make this possible.

Mr Beall, how about a list of Open Access publishers who are doing peer-review and production cost the right way? Like Molecular Vision. (http://molvis.org)

Ken Mitton, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Eye Research Institute
Oakland University.


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