Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has announced the launch of QScience Connect on its digital publishing platform QScience.com. QScience Connect is a new kind of peer-reviewed academic and scientific journal that aims to provide a home for all research considered to be valid, ethical and correct. All content in the journal will be 'open access,' meaning it is free-to-read on the web while authors retain copyright on their works.
The journal will publish original research papers of interest to specialists in all given fields. It will not set a threshold of perceived importance for the papers that it publishes; rather, it will publish all papers that are judged to be technically valid and original. All research papers will benefit from rapid peer review and publication.
QScience Connect is introducing a new feature, to emphasize that each article has been peer-reviewed and checked for validity and rigor. The journal has asked that the peer reviewers give up their anonymity for accepted manuscripts, allowing to create a 'Certificate of Acceptance' for each article, showing the names of the peer reviewers and editor who reviewed the manuscript. Authors are positively encouraged to make the most of the online environment and welcome submissions which may primarily consist of video or audio. Supplementary files can accompany text files too.
The journal is currently accepting submissions, and will publish its first articles in September 2011.
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