[open-science] [Open-access] special issue on publishing reform in 'publication'?

Thu Sep 5 17:26:37 UTC 2013

RE: MDPI

Phil Lord has written a positive, but honest review of his experience
publishing a paper in an MDPI journal here:
http://www.russet.org.uk/blog/2297

So yes, I gather MDPI are competent publishers
On Sep 5, 2013 6:30 PM, "Bjoern Brembs" <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just been invited to edit a special issue in the MDPI journal
> 'publications' on a topic I can specify. If I do it, I thought it should
> revolve around replacing journal rank (i.e., altmetrics, ALM, etc.) and
> other (technical?) means to transcend a journal-based literature towards a
> coherent knowledge-dissemination infrastructure that incorporates of course
> text, but also software and data.
>
> However, I'm a little hesitant as I don't have no experience with the
> publisher:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI
> http://www.mdpi.com/about/
>
> nor the journal:
>
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications
>
> I can see that Heather Morrison has published in there, but that's about
> it.
>
> I'm also doubtful as to which authors would be interested in submitting
> what to such a special issue.
>
> What do you think, should I do it? If so, who of you would be interested
> in contributing? If you have access to any other mailing lists or different
> means of dissemination, please by all means do send this around the various
> 'open' communities. I'll blog something and tweet it to see what the
> resonance from that end might be.
>
> I'm not sure I'm the right guy, but I'd let myself be convinced to try it
> anyway :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Bjoern
>
>
>
>
> --
> Björn Brembs
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> Universität Regensburg
> Germany
>
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