Why publish with us?
( Business Model )

Revenue sources

Red Flower Publications is a publisher that receives no government funding, education, charity or other funding and does not provide paid advertising. Our revenues come from articles processing fees and commercial reuse revenues (see sections 4 and 5 below).

Publishing schedule

Red Flower Publications publishes all manuscripts when accepted and the manuscript production process is completed. All articles are freely published on the Journal website immediately after publication. All authors receive completed PDFs of their papers.

No embargo period, and all articles published in several indexing and abstracting databases journals will be submitted to these services for publication. Each author receives a personal notification when his/her articles are indexed in that services.

Archiving

All articles published in the Red Flower Publications journal are stored in CLOCKSS, which provides a permanent archive of electronic scientific journals. We are also a participant in the LOCKSS initiative, which enables libraries to retain their own publishers' content archive. Some of our journals are also indexed in several indexing and abstracting databases, the electronic repository of complete texts from the Portico.

Direct marketing

As a responsible publisher, Red Flower Publications is very aware of the different anti-spam laws around the world and employs only reputable medical list companies that provide fully opted-in lists.

Red Flower Publications uses double opt-in confirmation when users sign up for email alerts on the Red Flower Publications website.

When you subscribe to email alerts, you can choose to receive emails daily, weekly or monthly, and all emails sent include an unsubscribe link.

Advertising

Red Flower Publications does not accept paid advertising in any publication (journal or website).