Call for Submissions: Betta Health Equity Journal - FREE Publishing for LMIC Authors (2) 'for-authors' acceptance rate $990

19 September, 2025

Dear Miracle,

I notice on the webpage

https://bettaopen.com/journals/healthequity/about/for-authors

- in a table:

Time to First Decision - 14 days  Acceptance Rate - $990 [*see note below]

On a general point - $990 is well beyond my means as a semi-retired, and (essentially) independent scholar.

In many nations, there are now of course (and increasingly) a great many retirees (Hifa too) with significant knowledge and experience. I wonder if journals will work out a way to facilitate 'knowledge acquisition' of a non-artificial kind?

A contribution to public mental health too.

Previously: 'equity'

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=equity

Kind regards

Peter Jones

Community Mental Health Nurse, Part-time Tutor and Researcher

Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD"

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/h2cm

HIFA profile: Peter Jones is a Community Mental Health Nurse with the NHS in NW England and a a part-time tutor at Bolton University. Peter champions a conceptual framework - Hodges' model - that can be used to facilitate personal and group reflection and holistic / integrated care. A bibliography is provided at the blog 'Welcome to the QUAD' (http://hodges-model.blogspot.com). h2cmuk AT yahoo.co.uk

[Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): This presumably represents the author processing charge (APC). This charge is waived for authors from LMICs]