Starting from 2015, a new publication track called "Lecture Notes" is launched, so as to separate with the name of our existing collections. Lecture notes are similar to books but focusing on a much specific topic. The position of a lecture note is between a book and a journal paper. No publication fee will be involved and hence materials in this track will not be open accessed. Subscription fees
is required to access the Lecture Notes. Two kinds of subscription is available: personal subscription and institutional subscription. You may find more information HERE
In January 2015, after five years of operations, we reviewed our business model and believed that we have to re-position ourselves. While most people agreed that they pursue the open access model, the support we received from the academia at-large is rather little. Even though we have a very tough review process, we still found quite some criticisms on the Internet, mostly accusing us of "publish for money - if you paid, you can publish whatsoever". You will know such statement is wrong if you are one of our authors or if you have a paper rejected by us. Some people even put us into a list called "predatory publisher", which is unbelievable and hurt. Having said that, we do fully appreciate and thank you the contributions of all our editors, authors and reviewers, regardless of whether or not you have paid any publication fee. It is very difficult to find people who are not only agreeing but also supporting what we did. Once again, to our authors and reviewers - Thank you. For the already published books and journals, they will be reminded as open access. iConcept Press is guided by the following major principles:
- Financial Fairness. We believe everyone should have access knowledge, regardless of monetary status. It is unfortunate, however, that many scientists in poor countries are unable to afford them. In light of this, most of our publications are open access. Because the company cannot survive without income, authors are billed a certain amount for article processing. However, this fee is waived if one or more authors of a paper are from low-income countries. In addition, if all the authors of a paper are experiencing financial difficulties, the publishing fee may be reduced, even if they are from the First World.
- Wide Distribution Channel. All our books and lecture notes are distributed through a number of online bookstores such as Amazon.com and Kindle. We also try our best to list our books in libraries and academic institutions.
- High Quality. A peer review system is set in place to ensure the quality of all the articles included in our books and journals. Typesetting each article is done with the utmost care. We set the highest standard of excellence in everything we do: in content and style, in editorial performance at every level, in transparency and accessibility to the scientific community and the public, and in educational value.
- Internationalism and Open Access. Our books and journals are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (i.e., an open access license) that allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and credited. We want to build a public library that provides unrestricted access to scientific research, ideas, and discoveries. We aim to be a truly international organization by providing access to scientific literature to anyone, anywhere, and through publishing works from every nation.
