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

[alicia]

Thanks Joshua! And thanks to the with you've put into this effort.
On Jun 29, 2016 7:16 AM, "Joshua" <joshua.m.pearce at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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