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Bravo on this initiative, Rob! Incidentally, since your per-page cost will be zero, conferences now have one more reason to choose a page limit that *excludes* the bibliography. It is surely detrimental for authors to have to cut down their bibliography to meet a page limit. Paul On 30 Apr 2009, at 13:53, Rob van Glabbeek wrote: > [ The Types Forum (announcements only), > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] > > With this email, we are launching > > Electronic Proceedings in Theoretic Computer Science (EPTCS) > > a new international refereed open access venue for the rapid > electronic publication of the proceedings of workshops and > conferences, and of festschrifts, etc, in the general area of > theoretical computer science, broadly construed. > > We do not charge authors or event organisers for electronic > publication in EPTCS in any way. If hard-copies of proceedings are > desired, event organisers have the choice of organising the printing > themselves or taking advantage of a standard contract we will make > with a printing house. Copyright on all papers is retained by the > author, and full-text electronic access to all papers is freely > available, without any need for registration or subscription. > > Permanent archival of EPTCS publications is ensured by organising > EPTCS as an overlay of the Computing Research Repository (CoRR): see > arXiv.org. The content of EPTCS will be indexed by DBLP. > > Only original papers will be considered for publication in EPTCS: > manuscripts are accepted for review by an EPTCS conference or workshop > with the understanding that the same work has not been published, nor > is presently submitted, elsewhere. However, full versions of extended > abstracts published in EPTCS, or substantial revisions, may later be > published elsewhere. > > The submission and refereeing process is handled entirely by the > organisation of the conference, workshop or festschrift to which the > paper is submitted. Our editorial board carefully selects which > workshops and conferences can be trusted to select scientific papers > of quality only, and only those events will be granted a contract to > fill a volume of EPTCS. > > Our editorial board consists of: > > Luca Aceto Rob van Glabbeek Gordon Plotkin > Rajeev Alur Lane A. Hemaspaandra Vladimiro Sassone > Krzysztof R. Apt Matthew Hennessy Robert H. Sloan > Lars Arge Bartek Klin Wolfgang Thomas > Ran Canetti Evangelos Kranakis Irek Ulidowski > Luca Cardelli Shay Kutten Dorothea Wagner > Rocco De Nicola Nancy Lynch Martin Wirsing > Jose' Luiz Fiadeiro Aart Middeldorp Moti Yung > Wan Fokkink Benjamin Pierce > > Further information can be found on our website: > > http://eptcs.org/. > > In the hope this initiative will benefit the theoretical computer > science community, > > Rob van Glabbeek > (Editor in Chief) Paul Blain Levy Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Birmingham +44 (0)121 414 4792 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl