On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Thursday 1. September 2016 20.04.58 Mike Leimon wrote: > > Greetings all, > > > > One of my friends brought this new open access journal to my attention this > > morning. Apparently, it is just starting up now and looking for an initial > > call for papers. > > > > http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/ > > It's interesting to know that Elsevier think it's worth "taking a punt" on > something like this, even though they publish books and journals on anything > and everything. It may help to get attention from a wider audience. > > Personally, I have a low opinion of journal publishing, having seen the brand > obsession that pervades academia: publish a good article in a suitable > journal > that random assessors of the described work don't already know and there's no > recognition to be had; get in amongst the authors on an article about someone > else's work that gets into a "brand name" journal and suddenly you did > something worthwhile after all. > > Combine that with "publication points" and other "productivity measures" > introduced to academia to make it more like the world of business and the > actual priorities of research and sharing knowledge take something of a back > seat. > > And there are the long-disliked aspects of the peer-review process, which in > this case involve paying $500 to Elsevier ($100 special initial offer!) per > submitted article and then presumably having your work reviewed by people who > are doing the reviewing for free. The positive side of this is that the > copyright of articles seems to be retained by the author - unlike a lot of > journal publishing - and that the licences are mostly standard Creative > Commons ones (CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND): > > https://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/open-access- > licenses
This applies to the select few Elsevier publications that are open-access. Indeed what most peaple have against Elsevier is that most of their content is not open-access. PLOS will typically charge you even more. E.g. if your article managed to get published into PLOS ONE, you'd have to pay $1500[1]. This is because it's their only source of funding: they are a respectable open-access non-profit. https://plos.org/publication-fees - even more for some of the others. > > https://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/copyright > > Elsevier, of course, gets additional rights. How else would they make all > that > money? > > http://theoryofcomputing.org/crisis.html > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/academic-publisher-elsevier-hit-with- > growing-boycott-1.1166665 Again, this is an open-access Elsevier publication. Not the typical Elsevier publication. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk