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Captain_Ozone  ·  4088 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

I wonder why they limited it only to mathematics? Are there other free publishers out there for the areas?

I cant imagine what the publishers reciprocation might be.





user-inactivated  ·  4088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

probably because they are mathematicians. if other fields want to do something similar, that's up to them.

mk  ·  4087 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ArXiv is a multidisciplinary 'journal' for 'preprints'. It is not peer-reviewed, but works somewhat as an open journal.

http://arxiv.org/

user-inactivated  ·  4086 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It replaces the preprint servers every department ran/runs, but it's not like a journal in that papers there are in various states of revision rather than having already gone through peer review (and, as a corollary, there are sometimes cranks). Browsing it is akin to browsing github, you can see all the cool stuff your peers are working on but you want to treat them with caution. The intent of this project seems to be to organize the review process like an ordinary journal does, then link to papers that are ready for prime time. It's a really obvious step, since we all have to do our own typesetting anyway (thanks for that, Knuth) and very few people read new papers in print journals anymore.