I agree completely with what Jan and David have said.
If the purpose a journal is to communicate between author and reader
without frills and publisher-junk (cf. Tufte's chart-junk) then Hindawi
journals come high up my list. Conversely many mainstream publishers'
technical offerings are simply
David, Jan Peter: thank you for your comments. I agree with some of what you
say, would like to point to where we said basically the same things in the
original post. and have some comments to add:
Agreed - Hindawi has a deserved reputation as a leader in scholarly publishing,
and in
Hi all,
The 1500 USD charged by Hindawi for the journal in question is by global
standards fairly reasonable, given the impact factor level of the
journal. The problem is that uniform APCs for all countries is probably
unsustainable in the long run. For this reason many gold OA journals
give
On 2015-04-10, at 5:04 PM, Graham Triggs wrote:
But practically, that is of little concern. You can stop publishing something
with a CC license, but you can't revoke it. Anyone that has the work acquired
under a CC license, who has done nothing to invalidate the CC license, can with
proper
The OAI Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication
is being held in the University of Geneva on 17-19 June 2015. It has
a call for posters. The deadline is 17 April 2015. See
http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/6 for more details.
The Workshop will contain 6
