[okfn-discuss] Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

Fri Jan 18 12:52:29 UTC 2013

Richard Van Noorden, 17 January 2013

Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals
that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server
arXiv. The project was publicly revealed yesterday in a blog post by
Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician at the University
of Cambridge, UK.

The initiative, called the Episciences Project, hopes to show that
researchers can organize the peer review and publication of their work
at minimal cost, without involving commercial publishers.

Continue here: http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publishers-out-of-publishing-1.12243

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil
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