New online math journal offers less expensive alternative for academics
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029203
Nature : Rather than publishing actual papers, a new online-only mathematics journal called Discrete Analysis will consist solely of a list of links to arXiv preprints. To have their papers accepted by the journal, authors will need to submit links to their arXiv preprints, which will then be subjected to the usual process of scholarly peer review. However, unlike other journals, there will be no charges for contributors or readers, according to managing editor Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University. Authors will be expected to do their own typesetting and copyediting, and grant money and additional funding should cover what minimal costs the journal may accrue. Gowers’s goal is to avoid the commercial pressures of the current academic publishing system and increase accessibility to the academic literature.
