Another Day, Another Open Access Talk..
So having exercised my franchise earlier this morning, I found myself in Maynooth University Library giving yet another talk about Open Access publishing as part of Open Access Week.
I’ve got a lecture at noon, which will be the last one I give before the half-term `Study Week’ which begins with a bank holiday on Monday 29th October (Lá Saoire i mí Dheireadh Fómhair). It’s very nice to have a break before Christmas like this. Also the University study week is timed to be the same as School half-term holidays, which is good for those members of staff who have kids of school age.
Well, that’s enough blogging. I need to get my vector calculus notes together. I’m doing line integrals today, by the way
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November 14, 2018 at 8:12 am
I have an open access question which perhaps you can answer: Are you aware of any open access overlay journals for (physics) conferences? I’m on an organising committee of a conference for which the committee has agreed to produce proceedings. We’d like them open access but preferably without the cost of using one of the traditional providers.
November 14, 2018 at 10:53 am
The main point is of course to provide some sort of validation through peer review, but the journal also does other things such as assigning a DOI and facilitating cross-referencing.
November 14, 2018 at 10:57 am
I don’t know of any such overlay journals similar to the OJA, but you might consider contacting SCIPOST who have a Proceedings section:
https://scipost.org/journals/
November 14, 2018 at 2:27 pm
Thanks; I’ll take a look at scipost.
November 14, 2018 at 2:29 pm
Thanks for the suggestions. The overlay journal idea is basically for the permanence, the doi and the citeability (and to some extent the peer review, too, though the contributions will be limited to those accepted to speak at the conference)