[Discuss] A new journal, The Journal of Open Engineering

[alicia]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Berg, Devin <bergdev at uwstout.edu> wrote:

> Wanted to bring to your attention a new journal that myself and a few
> others are working on launching called The Journal of Open Engineering
> <http://www.tjoe.org/>. It is a no-fee, open access journal for
> engineering built on top of the recently announced PubPub
> <http://www.pubpub.org/> platform out of MIT. Through the PubPub
> platform, articles are submitted and published immediately and then
> reviewers can be invited to review the article. Once the article has been
> reviewed and appropriately edited to the journal’s standards, it is
> featured as a publication in the journal. The goal behind this approach is
> to allow for immediate publication (similar to a preprint server) but add
> on top a transparent peer review process.
>
> The PubPub platform provides a unique interface for collaborative writing
> using Markdown with plugins for additional features. Publications can be
> rich, evolving and contain live content. This is exciting for engineering
> as this means we can now integrate content such as 3D visualizations,
> animations, designs, computational models, and live code! Personally I find
> these features really exciting as designs and models are currently often
> presented in "dead" figures, and codes referred to simply with statements
> like "using custom code". I think this has potential for publishing open
> hardware designs as a greater array of design documentation can be
> integrated into the publication itself. PubPub itself is open source and
> evolving and therefore the TJOE can also evolve and be shaped to enable new
> content and features in the future.
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> Sorry for being a little longwinded.
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
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> Devin Berg Ph.D.
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> Associate Professor
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> Program Director
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> Mechanical Engineering
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> 330 Fryklund Hall
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> Engineering & Technology Dept.
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> University of Wisconsin – Stout
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> 715/232-1133
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Cheers,
Alicia Gibb
CEO, Lunchbox Electronics <http://www.lunchboxelectronics.com/>
Executive Director, Open Source Hardware Association <http://www.oshwa.org/>
Director, Blow Things Up Lab <http://www.btulab.com/>
Author, Building Open Source Hardware
<https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13220>

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