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It's interesting to note that in the context of this letter about the Journal of Algorithms, that there is now an open-access journal called "Algorithms" which
by b800h 3y ago
It's interesting to note that in the context of this letter about the Journal of Algorithms, that there is now an open-access journal called "Algorithms" which looks like it launched five years after this letter:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms
- _delirium 3y agoWith a different set of problems imo. MDPI is a for-profit publisher with a "pay-to-publish" model, charging authors $1800 per accepted paper. And also a mixed reputation on quality, verging on a "paper mill" where they accept anything just to maximize their publication fees. Not a great model imo. There are non-profit Platinum OA journals that don't charge publication fees, like JMLR (https://www.jmlr.org/ https://www.jmlr.org/), which is the only kind of OA I consider interesting.
- tokai 3y agoTake a look at the length of the "controversies" part of that publisher's wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Evaluation_and_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Evaluation_and_controvers...