Overlay Journals -- the ultimate publication model? (#94) · Issues · Publishing Reform / discussion · GitLab

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-16

Summary:

Quick description (see links for more details)

Articles are archived in open repositories.

Authors are free to decide which version to post as preprints.

When article is accepted, the final version is posted and permanently linked from the journal.

The author is free to post new versions or updates, whereas the journal continues to link to the accepted version.

The final version includes copy-editing if there is any.

The overlay model seems to best address the needs of all participants:

Cheaper archiving done via repositories and mirrors, fast and secure content availability.

Single final version posted to open repository, no confusion between free and published versions, easy accurate referencing to parts of the paper.

Easy and cheap way to post an update, typos or error fixes. The journal continues to link to the official refereed version.

None of these seem to be met by traditional journals:

Archiving is fragmented and expensive, work and staff costs are duplicated for individual journals.

Official published version diverges from the one posted to repositories, updating to the last version is hard and discouraged by publishers only providing final PDFs, where the exact changes are not clear. Different pages, structure, section/formula numbering etc. Different look of citations.

Updates require major work and cost, only by means of sending an Erratum. Authors are discouraged from sending too many Errata, since those appear in their publication lists and may cause repetitional damage. Consequently, many errors are not fixed, readers are confused and suffer...."

Link:

https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/94

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.overlay oa.new oa.gold oa.repositories oa.business_models oa.preservation oa.dynamic oa.preprints oa.versions oa.journals

Date tagged:

11/16/2018, 13:40

Date published:

11/16/2018, 08:40