Research Threads to replace special issues v0.2

Here’s an idea that that is part of the proposal for one of the journals i’m working with on implementing aspects of open-process in academic publishing: a different way to deal with topics important to a journal is to replace the concept of special issues, with the concept of research threads.

In short: research threads are  [...]

February 28th, 2010 | Category: Academia, Open Process Publishing | 3 comments | Views: 2502

Open-process Academic Publishing v1.2

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Publishing and knowledge production in academia can be significantly improved if aspects of cooperative models developed in software and networking communities are adopted. Open Access movement does that partially, by focusing on the openness of the final result. The most important attributes of the development of the Internet, the Web and their communication-cooperation tools is [...]

December 16th, 2009 | Category: Academia, Journal Submission, Open Process, Open Process Publishing | One comment | Views: 2373