Open Journals - RIOJA Project
Posted: February 17 2007
Following on from the Open Journals thread, I'm happy to say that we now have funding for a project to investigate more fully the implementation of journals on top of the arXiv repository. The project runs for one year and is starting now. It's called RIOJA - see the JISC default website and the proposal.
The project won't actually start a journal as the funding is only short term. However we hope to have a fully functional journal website with journal-arxiv integration, ready to go live at the end of the project if a viable funding source can be identified.
Any thoughts on the desirability or viability of the overlaying journal quality certification on the arXiv repository much appreciated. We will be carrying out more formal surveys as part of the project, but a discussion of the relevant issues people are concerned about would be helpful.
The project won't actually start a journal as the funding is only short term. However we hope to have a fully functional journal website with journal-arxiv integration, ready to go live at the end of the project if a viable funding source can be identified.
Any thoughts on the desirability or viability of the overlaying journal quality certification on the arXiv repository much appreciated. We will be carrying out more formal surveys as part of the project, but a discussion of the relevant issues people are concerned about would be helpful.