Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing

ananyo writes "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 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. 'It’s a global vision of how the research community should work: we want to offer an alternative to traditional mathematics journals,' says Jean-Pierre Demailly, a mathematician at the University of Grenoble, France, who is a leader in the effort. Backed by funding from the French government, the initiative may launch as early as April, he says."

Comments

Re:Let's not celebrate on the graves of too many

[hcs_$reboot]

Not funny, sorry. But having a very serious post flagged +5 Funny is one of the worst that can happen here :-)

Re:I call Godwin

[Pro-feet]

Well, that last night was quite a night. Steaming, and blurry. While not necessary to prove his point, it for sure provided him the stamina today to put it all out there in his insightful contribution to this Godwinly-diverted thread.

Re:Disingenious

[SilentStaid]

Thanks for voting me to -1, as if my arguments were 100% troll. You are fucktards and you obviously cannot accept differing opinions.

You were peer-reviewed and we as a community decided not to publish you.

Re:I call Godwin

[wonkey_monkey]

Oh how clever you are. Someone is going to mention something eventually, so it should be you first. fuckwit.

You're not supposed to sign your posts when you post as an AC.