[Discuss] HardwareX => OSH goes mainstream in the Sciences

[Joshua]

Hi All,

Apologies if you got my original post - but it did not go through and I
have a slightly better news update of the original good news.

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 for professional scientists. 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 ~$1.5-3k depending on journal). The idea is
that 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,
Elsevier has even started plugging the OSH summit:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/news/open-hardware-summit-2016

Also as an added bonus - all accepted papers submitted in 2016 receive a
free copy of the Open Source Lab
<http://store.elsevier.com/Open-Source-Lab/Joshua-Pearce/isbn-9780124104624/>,
which to the best of my knowledge is the first book that Elsevier ever
published with a rider on the contract that said they had to provide it
open access. They got to choose how so they put up a free chapter every
month on a rolling basis. Not perfect - but it is a start. It will not be a
lot of new information to the people on this list - but the link does have
a reasonably comprehensive list of all OSH for science - if I missed
anything please click edit and add it!

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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Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Michigan Technological University
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