Demailly says that he expects to adjust the concept with feedback from the mathematics community. “If people want larger reviews linked to papers, or the possibility of online comments and blogs, we can offer this with only minor changes to the platform,” he says. At the moment, the model's success or failure hinges on buy-in from mathematicians — but the involvement of Gowers and other prominent mathematicians, such as Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, may help to build support.
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Add CommentWHAT IS A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhat is a peer-reviewed journal?
1. It is a peer-review manager (peers, chosen by editor, review free, editor adjudicated reviews and revisions) and copy-editor.
2. If the article is accepted, the accepted draft is certified with the journal's name.
3. The journal generates and distributes (3a) a print and/or (3b) online edition.
A journal that does not generate a print edition (3a) is still a journal.
A journal that does not generate an online edition (3b) is still a journal.
If costs are paid by subscriptions, it's a subscription journal. I
If costs are paid by subsidies, it's a subsidized journal.
If caused are paid by the author, it's an author-pays journal.
OA is free online access, immediately upon publication.
If OA is provided by the journal, it's Gold OA publishing.
If OA is provided by the author, it's Green OA self-archiving.
If the journal is OA, it's a Gold OA journal. If not, not.
There is hence no need for (nor any nes information provided by) new terms like "diamond," "overlay" or "epi" journal.
An OA journal that charges neither subscriptions nor author-fees is a subsidized journal ("diamond" adds no further information or properties).
An OA journal that generates neither a print nor an online version is an OA journal that generates neither a print nor an online journal: the self-archived version is the only version.
The reasons (some) physicists and mathematicians speak of "overlay" journals is because many physicists and mathematicians, before submitting their papers to a journal for peer review, self-archive their unrefereed "preprints" in Arxiv. They also self-archive their final, peer-reviewed "postprints" in Arxiv. They think of the peer-review, copy-editing, and certification as an "overlay" on their unrefereed preprint.
But, by the same token, the peer-review, copy-editing is an "overlay" on every author's unrefereed preprint, whether the journal is print, online, both, or neither; and most authors don't self-archive their unrefereed drafts at all.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWHAT IS A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL?
What is a peer-reviewed journal?
1. A journal is a peer-review manager and copy-editor (the peers, chosen by the editor, review for free; the editor adjudicates the reviews and the author revisions) .
2. If the article is accepted, the accepted draft is certified with the journal's name.
3. The journal generates and distributes (3a) a print and/or (3b) online edition.
A journal that does not generate a print edition (3a) is still a journal.
A journal that does not generate an online edition (3b) is still a journal.
The journal certifies the content and quality standards with its name and track-record.
If the journal's costs are paid by subscriptions, it's a subscription journal.
If costs are paid by subsidies, it's a subsidized journal.
If costs are paid by the author, it's an author-pays journal.
OA is free online access to journal articles, immediately upon publication.
If OA is provided by the journal, it's Gold OA publishing.
If OA is provided by the author, it's Green OA self-archiving.
If the journal is OA, it's a Gold OA journal. If not, not.
There is hence no need for (nor any new information provided by) new terms like "diamond," "overlay" or "epi" journal.
An OA journal that charges neither subscriptions nor author-fees is a subsidized journal ("diamond" adds no further information or properties).
An OA journal that generates neither a print nor an online version is an OA journal that generates neither a print nor an online version: the self-archived version is the only version.
The reason (some) physicists and mathematicians speak of "overlay" journals is that many physicists and mathematicians, before submitting their papers to a journal for peer review, self-archive their unrefereed "preprints" in Arxiv. They also self-archive their final, peer-reviewed "postprints" in Arxiv. They think of the peer-review, copy-editing, and certification as an "overlay" on their unrefereed preprint.
But, by the same token, the peer-review, copy-editing and certification is an "overlay" on every author's unrefereed preprint, whether the journal is print, online, both, or neither.
And most authors don't self-archive their unrefereed drafts at all.