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Open Journal of Astrophysics: Update

Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Bonkers) may recall that a few weeks ago I posted an item in which I suggested setting up The Open Journal of Astrophysics. The motivation behind this was to demonstrate that it is possible to run an academic journal which is freely available to anyone who wants to read it, as well as at minimal cost to authors. Basically, I want to show that it is possible to "cut out the middle man" in the process of publishing scientific research and that by doing it ourselves we can actually do it better.
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A Modest Proposal - The Open Journal of Astrophysics

Astrophysics has taken the lead for many years in opening up access to scientific publications - all publications of any merit are available for free on the internet via the arXiv and, in my opinion, the traditional journals are already more-or-less redundant even without considering their "astronomical" cost. The one thing that seems a consistent objection to dispensing with journals altogether is the element of peer review.

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