Why I’ve also joined the good guys | Gowers's Weblog

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-08-01

Summary:

"The short version of what I want to say in this post is that a platform is to be created that will make it very easy to set up arXiv overlay journals. What is an arXiv overlay journal? It is just like an electronic journal, except that instead of a website with lots of carefully formatted articles, all you get is a list of links to preprints on the arXiv. The idea is that the parts of the publication process that academics do voluntarily — editing and refereeing — are just as they are for traditional journals, and we do without the parts that cost money, such as copy-editing and typesetting...."

Link:

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/why-ive-also-joined-the-good-guys/

Updated:

08/01/2021, 05:48

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Tags:

oa.gold oa.overlay oa.mathematics oa.journals oa.gold oa.episciences oa.arxiv

Date tagged:

08/01/2021, 09:48

Date published:

01/16/2013, 04:48