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Monday, August 29, 2005

Theory of Computing -- an OA journal

Theory of Computing (ToC) is an Open Access theoretical computer science journal. The journal was inspired by the mass resignation of the editorial board from the Journal of Algorithms. Included as a special section within Theory of Computing (ToC) is Quantum Computing. Perhaps reflecting the journal's origins, one finds tabs on the main page for both Articles and Issues. Articles, as one may imagine, leads to articles on the theory of computing. Issues provides an essay, "Crisis in the cost of journals", and a page of links related to Open Access. ToC is ensuring long-term availability of their articles both through mirror sites (University of Chicago, IIT Kanpur, SzTAKI (Budapest), KTH (Stockholm), ANU (Canberra) and the University of South Africa) and by depositing all articles in CoRR (Computing Research Repository), the computer science portion of arXiv.org. CoRR is jointly sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Theory of Computing - Fulltext v1+ (2005+); ISSN: 1557-2862.

Posted by George Porter at 8/29/2005 06:00:00 PM.

The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious research.

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