You might be interested in discovering an « overlay journals platform » called episciences<http://episciences.org/> developed by the CCSD (CNRS/INRIA/Université de Lyon) which now hosts 5 journals, soon 6 etc. Momentum, indeed. It is piggybacking on both arXiv and HAL<https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/>, but I presume it can piggyback other repositories. And if you are planning to launch a new journal or to transform an existing one, you should consider this resource as a viable option.
All the best for the new year Serge Bauin Université Sorbonne Paris Cité<http://www.sorbonne-paris-cite.fr/fr> and CNRS<http://www.cnrs.fr/dist/> PS. There is an English language version (look top right). When I visit the site, the default seems to be French, but maybe is this based on IP address… Le 05/01/2016 15:32, « Heather Morrison » <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> a écrit : Elizabeth Gibney’s article in Nature with this title may be of interest to list readers: http://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-arxiv-gather-momentum-1.19102?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ heather.morri...@uottawa.ca<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org<mailto:GOAL@eprints.org> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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