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

Fri Jan 18 17:06:05 UTC 2013

Laurent,

On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr> wrote:

> And for the record, there are a couple of institutions and communities who are planning to take up the same environment (based on the French HAL repository) for other journals. Much more visionary than the Gold rush to my view.
> 

Could you give us more specifics re. the above? Links?

Many thanks,

> Le 18 janv. 2013 à 13:52, Everton Zanella Alvarenga a écrit :
> 
>> 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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