A few months back there was a discussion (I believe on this list) of an
open access, or at least a society journal, alternative to Journal of
Structural Geology (Elsevier). As far as I can tell, the European
Geosciences Union's new journal Solid Earth looks like it would fit this
bill perfectly:
http://www.solid-earth.net/
Solid Earth (SE) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the
publication and discussion of multidisciplinary research on the
composition, structure and dynamics of the Earth from the surface to the
deep interior at all spatial and temporal scales.
The journal invites short communications, research articles, review
articles and commentaries on all aspects of the Solid Earth, comprising of
observational, experimental, and theoretical investigations (for details
see manuscript types).
The main subject areas include geochemistry, geodesy, geodynamics,
geomorphology, geophysics, magma and rock physics, magnetism, mineral
physics, palaeontology, petrology, sedimentology, seismology, soil system
science, stratigraphy, structural geology, tectonophysics and volcanology
(for details see journal subject areas).
Solid Earth represents the cutting edge of electronic publishing, and it
encourages the use of innovative data analysis and visualization schemes
and formats.
Solid Earth has an innovative two-stage publication process involving the
scientific discussion forum Solid Earth Discussions (SED), which has been
designed to:
foster scientific discussion;
maximise the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality
assurance;
enable rapid publication;
make scientific publications freely accessible.
In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access peer-review are
immediately published on the SED website. They are then subject to
Interactive Public Discussion, during which the referees' comments
(anonymous or attributed), additional short comments by other members of
the scientific community (attributed) and the authors' replies are also
published in SED. In the second stage, the peer-review process is
completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in SE.
To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting
record of scientific discussion, SED and SE are both ISSN-registered,
permanently archived and fully citable.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, wrc wrote:
> Article concerning the cost of academic journals:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices
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