Prompted by a question on SLAPAM-L, I found a recent tabulation of the reported lag time between submission, acceptance, and publication. (Notices of the American Mathematical Society is freely available online.)
Backlog of Mathematics Research Journals. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 51(8):924-927 2004 September.
The tables include both traditional and online-only journal editor's estimates of the delay between submission and publication. Note that the units of delay change between the print (months) and online (days) realms. The speed advantage of the online journals is incredible.
Notices of the American Mathematical Society - Fulltext v42+ (1995+); Print ISSN: 0002-9920 | Online ISSN 1088-9477.
Thanks to Dana Roth (Caltech) for bringing the article to my attention and Frances Knudson (LANL) for posing the question.
Posted by
George Porter at 9/03/2004 07:19:00 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.
