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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Editors revolt completed -- ACM TALG launched in competition to JoA

ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) is the long-awaited result of a mass resignation by the editorial board of Journal of Algorithms (JoA) over a long running pricing dispute with their publisher. [For additional background on the JoA->TALG story, read the STLQ posts Commentary: The Crisis In Scholarly Communication, by George Porter and Journal of Algorithms Fallout Getting Noticed, Stanford U Takes Stand Against "Pricey Journals".] TALG is the culmination of a long brewing dispute between the (now former) editorial board of Journal of Algorithms (JoA) and their commercial publisher. Donald Knuth's analysis of the pricing trend for JoA provided the final impetus for the break. Now, thanks to the assistance of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), this editorial board revolt has concluded in the launch of a new, competitively priced journal. In addition, the editorial board's decision to break away from a commercial publisher inspired not one, but two, independent Open Access journals to begin working in the same field, Theory of Computing and Logical Methods in Computer Science.

ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) - Fulltext v1+ (2005+); Print ISSN: 1549-6333 | Online ISSN: 1549-6325.

Theory of Computing - Fulltext v1+ (2005+); ISSN: ??

Logical Methods in Computer Science - Fulltext v1+ (2005+); ISSN: 1860-5974.

Posted by George Porter at 8/17/2005 01:23:00 PM.

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