Publishing scientific research: Is there ground for new ventures?

Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-89

  Polydoratou, Panayiota ^a   Moyle, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrophysics cosmology; Overlay journal model; Publishing models; Subject repositories

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL BOARD; INDEXING SERVICE; JOURNAL ARCHIVES; NEW VENTURES; PEER-REVIEW PROCESS; PUBLISHING HOUSE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SUBJECT REPOSITORIES;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 84869141588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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