Peerage of Science
URL = http://www.peerageofscience.org/
Description
"Basically you submit your paper before to get advice and reviewing from people that is part of the project (free and open),they allow open (not blind) reviewing and submission (we all knew who is the other) , there are journals subscribed that can directly contact you to publish the reviewed version or you can send your work with the reviewing data to another journal that could accept your paper or ask for some more reviewing."
Directory of similar open publishing services
Compiled by Patricia Castillo-Briceno:
Pre-prints submissions for free, post print publication at a fix yearly low rate (compared to other editorials)
- Biomed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Editorial of quite reputed journals in biomedicine, however you have to pay to publish with them (about 2000 USD), but your papers are open access and you keep your rights
Free Access: A Core Principle of PMC ; As an archive, PMC is designed to provide permanent access to all of its content, even as technology evolves and current digital literature formats potentially become obsolete. NLM believes that the best way to ensure the accessibility and viability of digital material over time is through consistent and active use of the archive. For this reason, free access to all of its journal literature is a core principle of PMC. Please note, however, that free access does not mean that there is no copyright protection. As described on our copyright page publishers and individual authors continue to hold copyright on the material in PMC and users must abide by the terms defined by the copyright holder.
- NIH Public Access Policy http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
Wellcome trust http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Policy/index.htm ; British Heart Foundation http://www.bhf.org.uk/research/research-grants/managing-your-grant/open-access-policy.aspx ; In summary Uk policy encouraging to get public access for all papers from research funded by public sources, so they provide additional funds to get open access when needed.
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/open_access_publishing/index.html ; Similar policy that UK's above
- Europe PubMed central http://europepmc.org/
Similar to PMC but european
- Gigascience http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/
This is a very interesting journal/initiative, as stated by them they state: "GigaScience aims to revolutionize data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use. An online open-access open-data journal, we publish 'big-data' studies from the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences.
To achieve our goals, the journal has a novel publication format: one that links standard manuscript publication with an extensive database that hosts all associated data and provides data analysis tools and cloud-computing resources."
Maybe the best as a model "pain-free publishing", deserves to be analysed in detail