The Forum of Mathematics, blessing or curse? — Peter Krautzberger

"When the Forum of Mathematics was announced on Tim Gowers’s blog I mentioned this on twitter and I got a couple of replies asking what my thoughts on it were. Well, this post has been stuck in my draft folder for too long, long enough for these journals to be open for submissions, blimey... The Forum of Mathematics is a new journal. Well, no, it’s actually two journals, Pi and Sigma (yes, not π and Σ). (This is surprisingly nerdy for the honorable Cambridge University Press — just imagine all the inside jokes you can do with it (but we’ll get back to that).)  These are two journals in mathematics. So far, so boring. They are open access journals, more precisely Gold Open Access, i.e., you pay a fee once, when your publication is accepted, and then your publication is published and available under a permissive license (creative commons in this case)..."