Hi

I agree with Christian about the restrictive nature of fees and
paper-based publishing.

The Public Knowledge Project at http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ is well worth a
visit for journal and conference software.The Open Journal Systems
(OJS) software at http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ is excellent. I use it for
the open access journal "International Journal of Education and
Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT)"
at:
http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/index.php

Regards

Stewart

On 8/18/05, Christian Wagner <christian@...> wrote:
> I too agree that a model with author fees is restrictive for the
> publication of research. I would even go further and suggest that any
> "paper based" journal model stiffles research publication. In paper
> based journals, the marginal cost for every page printed is considered
> and so an artifical scarcity is produced, resulting in a "pipeline"
> and publication delays.
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> An open research model should better align itself with the publication
> models of slashdot.org or kuro5hin.org, both of which have peer
> review, yet fast publication, and large readership. Both are
> electronic publication models.
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> I would consider an alternate paper based model, where the publication
> is essentially electronic, but authors could request (at their cost) a
> "bound journal issue" (printing on demand) so that they can give it to
> their Dean at the time of tenure decisions.
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> If you have not seen it, the University of British Columbia offers a
> free software for the management of electronic journals. You can find
> it at http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/ and it runs on a PhP/MySQL platform
> (either with Linux/Apache or with Windows + web server).
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Professor Stewart Marshall
Director, Distance Education Centre
The University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown, BARBADOS, West Indies
phone: +1 246 417 4497 fax: +1 246 421 6753
Gmail: stewartmar@...
url: http://www.dec.uwi.edu/smarshall

Please view the open access e-journal on ICT in education and
development at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu//index.php
and the recently published books edited by Marshall, Taylor & Yu:
"Closing the Digital Divide"
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=Q602
"Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions"
http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4146
"Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with ICT"
http://www.idea-group.com/encyclopedia/details.asp?ID=4460
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