STM publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation, US, has announced the launch of its Open Access Institutional Membership program. The programme will enable authors from member institutes to publish their work in Hindawi's more than 125 open access journals without having to administer and pay any Article Processing Charges from their individual research budgets.
Hindawi's membership programme is based on a flat rate payment that covers all accepted articles that are submitted by an author from a member institute during the period of the membership. The cost of the membership depends on the level of research output of the institute and their historical publishing pattern in Hindawi journals.
In order to help universities and other research organisations judge the level of participation of their researchers in Hindawi journals (whether as authors, editors, or reviewers), Hindawi has created institutional profile pages to showcase the output of an organisation. The institutional web page of a particular institute can be accessed using a URL of the form 'http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/domain/,' where 'domain' is the domain name of the particular institution.
In addition to the more than 125 open access journals that Hindawi currently publishes, this membership will include any journal that is added to Hindawi's collection during the term of the membership.
