From: <[log in to unmask]> 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 ____________________________________________________ Dr.-Ing. Joachim E. Meier Head of Library Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) (http://www.ptb.de) PF 3345 Tel. +49-531-592-8131 38023 Braunschweig Fax. +49-531-592-8137 GERMANY E-mail: [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________