[Discuss] Open Hardware Academic Publishing

Matt Maier blueback09 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 16:27:00 UTC 2016


Dr. Pearce,

That's awesome. Thanks for pointing out those resources.

Will reproducing OSHW scientific tools count as a kind of citation? Can we
use the same tracking system to keep up with the lifecycle and family tree
of the projects?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Joshua <joshua.m.pearce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Devin - Thank you for making us all aware of the Journal of Open
> Engineering <http://www.tjoe.org/>. It sounds like a great concept - I
> will give it a try with our next big piece of open hardware for
> prototyping. Co-mingling pre-prints with the review is particularly
> appealing.
>
> For all of those interested in this topic I thought I would share two
> other journals that might fit your open hardware needs that are a little
> more on the traditional front.
>
> Elsevier has just launched HardwareX
> <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/> -- it is a fully open
> access microarticle journal meant specifically to publish open source
> scientific hardware. Requirements to publish include all the designs must
> be released under an open license either as part of the article itself of
> tied to a permanent link at the Open Science Framework <https://osf.io/>.
> It is supported by a $500 APC - the lowest we were able to negotiate (and
> is much better than the normal ~$3k depending on journal). The idea is that
> your normal scientific work will be supported by an OSH article providing
> everything another scientist needs to replicate and build on your
> experiment. In launching this - I think we can comfortably say -- OSH has
> gone mainstream in the sciences. HardwareX has the full support of the
> publisher (the largest) and is using their new Evise platform, which is
> pretty slick for submissions.It is open for submissions now.
>
> In addition, Ubiquity Press, (the same people that publish the Journal of
> Open Research Software <http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/>) are
> planning to launch a broader open hardware journal this year covering all
> aspects and applications of open hardware. It will follow the same model
> with a low APC, be fully OA, and demand full OS documentation.
>
> Thanks
> Joshua
>
> --
> Joshua M. Pearce, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab
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