On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 [identity removed] wrote:
> xxxx suggested that I contact you for information about starting
> an online journal. He said that you are involved in developing software
> for online journals. As part of my xxxx-funded
> project, I intend to set up an online journal concerned with teaching
> xxxx, especially with the use of student-participation
> experiments.
>
> I would very much appreciate any information you can provide.
SPARC maintains a list of online jouurnal software resources:
?page=h16
In addition, the Eprints.org free institutional archiving software
http://www.eprints.org/software.php
has already been modified by at least two journals I know of for use
with an online journal:
http://www.bbsonline.org/
and
http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
and Mike Jewell and Chris Gutteridge are currently working
on making the Eprints.org software directly parametrizable for
use by online journals (refereeing, commentary, archiving,
alerting).
There are also plans underway for extending Eprints.org to
data-archiving, which might be useful for online data-gathering
research.
Best of luck with your new journal.
Stevan Harnad
NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open
access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at
the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02):
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
or
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html
Discussion can be posted to: american-scientist-open-access-forum_at_amsci.org
See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative:
http://www.soros.org/openaccess
the Free Online Scholarship Movement:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
the OAI site:
http://www.openarchives.org
and the free OAI institutional archiving software site:
http://www.eprints.org/
Received on Sat Dec 14 2002 - 12:28:59 GMT