Why Membership?
The Science Park Journals Membership is to
promote the development of the open access
in academic research journals and to speed
up scientific dissemination and technology
intercourse, as well as to encourage
academicians, research institutions,
academic societies, nonprofit organizations,
and industrial sectors to actively support
open access in publishing.
Science Park Journals offers different types
of membership to meet the varied needs of
author
Prepay membership: Authors
prepay the charges of the articles to be
processed and published. The discounts of
the full article processing charge of the
relevant Science Park Journals will be
deducted from the account when the articles
are published. The more charges were
prepaid, the more discounts you will enjoy.
Supporter membership: The
supporter members pay fixed annual
membership fees based on the total numbers
of the researcher and the graduate of the
course in their own institutes. Authors from
supporter member institutes enjoy a 15%
discount of the article processing charges (APCs)
when they publish their articles in Science
Park Journals.
If you and your institute want a change in
the mode of publishing and dissemination of
the research results, and also be a part of
the change, you will have to think of
acquiring a membership of any of the Science
Park Journals.
If you are a scientist and wish your
institute, corporation or association to be
a member of the Science Park Journals, you
can make it by filling out our
recommendation form and made a suggestion to
your agencies for approval.
Benefits of being a member of the Science
Park Journals
Time saving and convenient:
The researchers don't have to pay the full
article processing charges. These terms are
for all journals charging APCs at present
and those journals that charge a certain
number of fees when publishing an article.
Be sure that the above advantages are only
for authors with Science Park Journals
membership. And the articles must be
submitted within membership period.
Cost saving:
As a member of the Science Park Journals,
all kinds of institute and their researchers
that publish articles in the open access
journals can enjoy the low cost-high
efficient solution that Science Park
Journals offers. This initiative offers
different kinds of solution for distinct
membership so as to provide them with the
most suitable and cost saving pricing
schemes that meet their needs.
Enjoying favorable discount of the Science
Park Journals’ products
Institute subscription enjoys 20% discount
of the Science Park Journals products and
services.
Increasing the exposure rate for your
institute
Science Park Journals open access policy
makes your work exposed to high visibility
and maximum exposure in the world. Anyone
can read and download your article with
online access. High quality articles in
Science Park Journals are automatically
assessed based on citation and can be
translated into different languages and
redistributed.
And, every article published in Science Park
Journals is to be assigned a DOI number
deposited to CrossRef, facilitating
permanent linkage and persisting citations
in scholarly materials. All articles
published in Science Park Journals are
deposited on the web and included in
scientific repositories and major databases
so that your work can be easily googled,
indexed and cited by researchers around the
globe.