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Open access doesn't necessarily imply free and not peer reviewed like arxiv. There are plenty of good, peer-reviewed journals that are open access - they are ce
by ac29 7y ago
Open access doesn't necessarily imply free and not peer reviewed like arxiv. There are plenty of good, peer-reviewed journals that are open access - they are certainly not free though ($1-2k when I was publishing several years ago).
- oefrha 7y agoThere are also peer-reviewed “arXiv overlay journals” that are very cheap to run and consequently cheap for authors. For instance, Timothy Gowers (Fields medalist, prominent figure in the movement against big publishers like Elsevier) announced[1] another one of these last week: > I am excited by the business model of the journal, which is that its very small running costs (like Discrete Analysis, it uses the Scholastica platform, which charges $10 per submission, as well as a fixed annual charge of $250, and there are a few other costs such as archiving articles with CLOCKSS and having DOIs)... [1] https://gowers.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/advances-in-combinatorics-fully-launched/ https://gowers.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/advances-in-combinat...