This page is our research results for Defensive Publishing options and costs. We are an open source organization but the information is usable by anyone.
For those that are interested, we have also created pages that describe exactly what copyrights, trademarks, and patenting are and exactly how each relate to open source and our specific open source goals. The following images link to these pages:
We want to share the least expensive sources to publish data to meet the “minimum documentation” standards so we can open source things permanently, legally, and without needing to patent them… preempting the patent process as discussed on this open source guide we’ve created: www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-and-patents/
We want to evolve this page with what is learned so others can use it. When the research below is complete, we will be able to make an official recommendation on the most affordable options(s) for Defensive Publishing. This will create the only open source guide in the world to Defensive Publishing and that is HUGE!
To accomplish all this, we want to know the actual COST to publish in different journals.
Some journals will not actually say what it costs to publish with them. They either want you to make an account, or they want you to pay a subscription fee to even receive information from them.
A good example of a website that actually does tell us the cost to publish with them is:
http://www.researchdisclosure.com
The core list of websites officially accepted for the ‘minimum documentation’ requirements under rule 34 1(B)(III) of the regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is below.
http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/04-02-01.pdf
What you will do is go through each website on this list and search the site for any “publish with us,” “author resources,” “Author guide” or related information that would lead to an actual price that you could record. We’ve been through about 40 different sites from this list (about 20% of the list), as shown below.
Our goal is to find publications that will take unsolicited material from anyone for a fee. A really good example of such a publication would be Popular Science:
A ” 219
B ” Popular Science
C ” Time 4 Media, Inc. 2 Park Avenue, NY 10016, USA * media company
D ” Pop. sci.
E ” 0161-7370
F ” en * English language
G ” 1994
H ” http://www.popsci.com/popsci/ * Not an organization
That said, Popular Science does not list cost details we could find. It was a good candidate to search, but we couldn’t find the cost details so we just listed it below with “cost details not available.”
Research for this is developing on this Google Doc:
CLICK HERE FOR THE RESEARCH GOOGLE DOC
Strikethrough means there’s nothing that you could find about the price and/or the link doesn’t work. For any prices you do find, simply add them after the URL and leave the URL the same. If it’s easier for you, you can add the numbers that you check in between the numbers listed above and go through them like that. Otherwise, list them below.
If the link doesn’t work, try removing the ‘www.’ portion. Also, try removing everything except the root domain name… for example, http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source/#sixmonthgoal would become http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/ .
Be aware that any links that you try to copy and paste from the resource PDF will most likely not fully copy with all of its contents. This is extremely important! You want to make sure you are getting the full URL given in the resource list. If it still doesn’t work, then do the process in the above paragraph.
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