i-Perception is a new open-access sister journal to Perception. For nearly 40 years Perception has been a leading journal for everyone interested in all the senses and the perceptual processes of humans, animals and machines. i-Perception covers the same academic areas but while Perception will continue as a free-to-publish, pay-to-read journal of the traditional sort, i-Perception is a pay-to-publish, free-to-read journal, thereby disseminating refereed accounts of research as widely as possible. Although the two journals will be treated separately bibliographically and as regards indexing and other listings, they share a common editorial board, refereeing standards and have similar submission procedures.

Please start by reading the general Perception/i-Perception Notes for Authors. Then, for more specific details on how to prepare manuscripts for i-Perception, please read the template instructions, below, which have themselves been prepared in the i-Perception template. Please note that failure to use the template will result in extra cost during invoicing:

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Papers in i-Perception are be freely accessible without subscription; the costs of publication are be paid by authors supported by their funding bodies or institutions. i-Perception is an Open Access/Author Pays journal.

If a paper is submitted according to i-Perception specifications (see How Can I Submit, above) it will normally be charged at £50 (US$80) a printed page (by "printed page" we mean a page of the final published PDF version of the paper) but there is currently a special introductory rate of £25 (US$40) for such papers. Papers not submitted to our specifications will be charged at £70 (US$110) a page. There is a minimum charge of £200 (US$320) for any paper—£100(US$160) if the author is eligible for the introductory rate.

If, in the opinion of the reviewers, editors, or publishers it is felt that special editorial work is required on the language of the paper the authors will be given the option of having that work done themselves or having it carried out by the experienced editorial staff at Pion. In the latter case a further charge will be payable and an estimate for that charge will be given to the authors in advance.

Where the submitting author is based within the European Union these charges will be subject to the appropriate level of UK value-added tax (VAT), currently 17.5% (increasing to 20% from 4 January 2010). Payment will be invoiced at the time of publication.

i-Perception is published by Pion Ltd, the publishers of Perception. Pion Ltd is an independent publishing house based in London. We have been publishing academic journals for fifty years.

Though some academic journals publish freely available material, they do not always meet the criteria to qualify for open access funding from certain grant-awarding bodies. For example, they might not deposit the final manuscripts in certain databases, such as PMC/UKPMC. It is the intention of i-Perception to meet such criteria, once any incubation periods imposed by such databases have been served, which may take some time.

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All articles published in i-Perception are registered with CrossRef, and will receive a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for ease of cross referencing. We will also provide the necessary online tools for reference bookmarking.

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