[...] John Hunter over at the Curious Cat Science and Engineering blog has a great post listing a number of open-access engineering journals available on the web. [...]
As I have said before, this information should be publicly available. The funding mechanism for peer review needs to change. If the Journals want to stay in business they need to find a way to add value that doesn’t keep public funded information from the public…
Sandra Porter has posted a series of posts on finding scientific papers for free: A day in the life of an English physician - What’s the best way to find free scientific publications? - My new favorite method - one more experiment…
Textbook Revolution is a resource on free textbooks and free related course materials. In general, I must say the prices of textbooks seem crazy. This is another tool great open access resource…
[...] It is time for the scientific community to give up on these journals and start looking to move to work with new organizations that will encourage scientific communication and advancement (PLoS - arXiv.org - Open Access Engineering Journals) and leave those that seek to keep outdated practices to go out of business. [...]
October 20th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
[...] John Hunter over at the Curious Cat Science and Engineering blog has a great post listing a number of open-access engineering journals available on the web. [...]
December 11th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
[...] Symmetry Magazine, an open access magazine from Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [...]
January 27th, 2007 at 9:26 am
As I have said before, this information should be publicly available. The funding mechanism for peer review needs to change. If the Journals want to stay in business they need to find a way to add value that doesn’t keep public funded information from the public…
May 25th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Sandra Porter has posted a series of posts on finding scientific papers for free: A day in the life of an English physician - What’s the best way to find free scientific publications? - My new favorite method - one more experiment…
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Textbook Revolution is a resource on free textbooks and free related course materials. In general, I must say the prices of textbooks seem crazy. This is another tool great open access resource…
August 29th, 2007 at 8:09 am
[...] It is time for the scientific community to give up on these journals and start looking to move to work with new organizations that will encourage scientific communication and advancement (PLoS - arXiv.org - Open Access Engineering Journals) and leave those that seek to keep outdated practices to go out of business. [...]
June 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
It is sad to see journals that were founded to promote science so flawed in their thinking today…