OA journal ‘takes on for-profit publishers’

« A world-renowned Cambridge mathematician and a team of colleagues say they are taking on for-profit academic journal publishers with the launch of Discrete Analysis, an open access journal.

The peer-reviewed journal launched by Timothy Gowers is claimed to mark a ‘new era’ in academic journal publishing. Discrete Analysis will follow the ‘diamond open access’ model – free to read and free to publish in – and will be editor-owned. (…) »