Diamond Open Access Gets Real: 'Free To Read, Free To Publish' Arrives | Techdirt

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-09-15

Summary:

" ... the mathematician Tim Gowers came up with something he called 'diamond' open access. At its heart lies arXiv.org, one of the earliest attempts to open up academic publishing in the early 1990s using the (then) new Net -- basically, it's an online server, where preprint papers are posted for anyone to read. Here are the key features of a diamond open access title: While in most respects it will be just like any other journal, it will be unusual in one important way: it will be purely an arXiv overlay journal. That is, rather than publishing, or even electronically hosting, papers, it will consist of a list of links to arXiv preprints. Other than that, the journal will be entirely conventional: authors will submit links to arXiv preprints, and then the editors of the journal will find referees, using their quick opinions and more detailed reports in the usual way in order to decide which papers will be accepted. That comes from a Gower's latest blog post, which announces the creation of a new diamond open access journal called "Discrete Analysis". It's not the first to adopt this model -- Gowers mentions a couple of others already in existence – but the post is interesting because it spells out in detail how this new kind of academic publishing works ..."

Link:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150912/02184032229/diamond-open-access-gets-real-free-to-read-free-to-publish-arrives.shtml

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oa.new oa.comment oa.mathematics oa.gold oa.green oa.terminology oa.definitions oa.arxiv oa.no-fee oa.repositories oa.journals

Date tagged:

09/15/2015, 20:07

Date published:

09/15/2015, 16:07