Jeremy Frumkin said the following on 2/22/2006 11:44 AM:
Ross unleashed:
Why does it have to follow /any/ traditional publishing model?
I sort of like the idea that maybe 3 articles come out in a week, then
nothing for a week or two, then another article comes out, and then one
comes out every day for a 13 day span.
If the delivery method is purely electronic, and it's a given that the
intended audience would have tools to be alerted of new articles, why
bother with a formal schedule?
-Ross.
While I was at the University of Arizona, we produced the Journal of Insect
Science (http://insectscience.org) (now at the University of Wisconsin).
While this is a peer reviewed journal, it took the approach not to produce
actual "issues", but to publish articles once they successfully vetted
through the peer review process. For preservation and posterity, at the end
of each year we would print out all of the articles and have them hard
bound.
The point is, Ross' suggestion is a good one, and I give it a hearty +1
I like the idea of taking a similar approach to what Jeremy describes
the Journal of Insect Science as taking. I think it would be good to
publish articles as they are approved, and then either once or twice a
year (depending on the number of submissions), package them all as one
volume.
Ed C.
-- jaf
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