Bentham Open

by Yan on 10月 23, 2007

Bentham Science 似乎是个医药方面还算重要的科技出版社。收到他们一封信,推广 The Open Optics Journal,一份新的开放获取光学期刊。这样子,加上 Optics ExpressJournal of the European Optical Society:Rapid publications,就我所知,就有三份开放获取的光学期刊了。

最令人诧异的,他们将在年内推出 200 多份开放获取的期刊,涵盖各个学科。

一下子增加 200 多份新期刊,这听起来也太“离谱”啦。这从一个角度说明,开放获取的电子期刊成本很小,有利可图。

办一份学术杂志, 最重要和最难的地方在于同行评议,而同行评议都是相关领域的研究者们免费做的(知道国内不是这样子的)。

还有就是开办初期的稿源问题。Bentham Science 为此正在招募大量编辑。你看 The Open Optics Journal编辑部已经很庞大了吧,但他们似乎还在努力扩充。信中一段话:

As an editorial board
member, you may be required to occasionally review papers, solicit articles from your colleagues/acquaintances and help promote the journal at conferences and meetings that you attend. Submissions of manuscripts to the journal from Editorial Board Members will receive a discount of 50% off the total publication charges.

以出版费打折来吸引人,感觉不是很好。

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