Do you want your research to reach a worldwide audience? Do you want to include your 3D visualisations, animations, datasets or mapping in your publication?
There are several advantages of publishing in IA:
Independent not-for-profit journal
Peer-reviewed
Rapid publication
International reach/readership
Content is deposited with ADS for long term preservation
Broad scope - no chronological or geographical limits
From 'simple' articles through to fully integrated multimedia monographs
Inclusion of visualisations and animations and mapping
Integration of data for online searching
'Deep linking' to related additional data hosted elsewhere e.g. ADS, institutional repositories
Dedicated experienced editor and copy-editor
DOI assigned to each article
Gold and Green Open Access (OA) publishing route (RCUK compliant). Authors may deposit a pre-print or a final, accepted manuscript version (post-print) of their article in a repository at any time.
Copyright is retained by author. Liberal licensing and re-use policy through Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0)
The advantages of Open Access publishing specifically are: