[Discuss] Open Hardware Academic Publishing

[Joshua]

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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Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Michigan Technological University
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1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
906-487-1466

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