[GOAL] Any examples of journals charging non refundable fee for peer review?

[Danny Kingsley]

Hi all,

I am passing on a question from a library in Australia:

"I have recently become aware that some publishers and journals are charging authors a non-refundable fee to have their articles peer reviewed that is separate from the article processing charge.  I hadn't heard about this until one of our librarians mentioned it in passing.

I was wondering if anyone else had come across this (or whether I've just had my head in the sand and not noticed!), and if so, whether it is common.  Any examples would be great :)"

Dr Danny Kingsley
Visting Fellow
Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS)
p: +61 413 101 197
w: http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley
t: @openaccess_oz

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20141024/0bfbf13f/attachment.html