On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 [identity removed] wrote: > xxxx suggested that I contact you for information about starting > an online journal. He said that you are involved in developing software > for online journals. As part of my xxxx-funded > project, I intend to set up an online journal concerned with teaching > xxxx, especially with the use of student-participation > experiments. > > I would very much appreciate any information you can provide.
SPARC maintains a list of online jouurnal software resources: ?page=h16 In addition, the Eprints.org free institutional archiving software http://www.eprints.org/software.php has already been modified by at least two journals I know of for use with an online journal: http://www.bbsonline.org/ and http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and Mike Jewell and Chris Gutteridge are currently working on making the Eprints.org software directly parametrizable for use by online journals (refereeing, commentary, archiving, alerting). There are also plans underway for extending Eprints.org to data-archiving, which might be useful for online data-gathering research. Best of luck with your new journal. Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html or http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Discussion can be posted to: [email protected] See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess the Free Online Scholarship Movement: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm the OAI site: http://www.openarchives.org and the free OAI institutional archiving software site: http://www.eprints.org/
