Thanks to Stian Håklev for the alert and for his own translation of parts of the announcement. Excerpt:
...All the articles will be sent to peer-review....
Our desire is to contribute to the growing family of freely available electronic publications that are distributed to the entire research world. Through the establishment of Oslo Studies in Language we guarantee the control of both the academic content, the typographic presentation and storage for the future, without having to go through the traditional publishing houses, state Grønn and Haug. Both refer to the important power that lays with the traditional publishing houses.
– Today researchers and universities actually have to pay to have books published with international publishers. The peer-reviewers and editors are usually not paid. Then, the publishers charge good money for the journals and books. This happens, even if it is the universities and the state has has paid for the research. With this service, the researchers only have to send the content to us, before we pass it on to peer-review. If it is accepted, it will immediately be published in our electronic book series....
Both give credit to a member of the editing committee, Östen Dahl from Stockholm University for sowing the seed about launching an electronic book series. – The only demand he had for joining the editing committee, was that the book series should be made available through a publishing channel that was electronic and freely available. It is said that Dahl is the most cited linguist in the Nordic countries....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/18/2009 01:16:00 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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
