Good Evening List Friends.
It is always satisfying when one of my reposts gets a response like this
one. The URL is to the "Public Knowledge Project" for the Open Journal
Systems project being promoted by the University of British Columbia.
Regards
Ross Gould, P.Ag.
Calgary, Alberta.
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Ross,
Here are the tools to do it with http://pkp.ubc.ca/ojs/
That would be a hell of a peer review process.
I think it is inevitable that scientific publications become
published using the internet. It removes the two largest cost
printing and shipping and cuts the time to publication by at least 2
months if you use the same system now in place.
I think that a system will evolve that cuts out the commercial
journals unless they get a lot more reasonable on their prices. Once
an online journal gets the prestige of print journals I think there
will be a slow change over. Particularly for the associations that
publish their own journals.
I think the costs estimates for online journals are higher than they
will turn out to be in most cases.
[signed but left anonymous]
