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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:33:34 +0100
Dear colleagues,
the first "overlay" journal, was issued on 28. Feb. from the
arXiv-plattform using Scholastica — A journal management and
publishing platform:
http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/articles
Two recent nature news introduced this new kind of journal publishing
out of an eprint-plattform:
"Leading mathematician launches arXiv 'overlay' journal Journal that
reviews papers from preprint server aims to return publishing to the
hands of academics.
by Philip Ball
15 September 2015 Updated: 01 March 2016
Update: The journal Discrete Analysis officially launched on 28 February 2016."
http://www.nature.com/news/leading-mathematician-launches-arxiv-overlay-journal-1.18351
see also:
Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum Peer-review
platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to
astrophysics.
by Elizabeth Gibney 04 January 2016
http://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-arxiv-gather-momentum-1.19102?spMailingID=50411691&spUserID=NjU5NjA1NTA5OTMS1&spJobID=840952609&spReportId=ODQwOTUyNjA5S0
Greetings
Joachim Meier
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