Ali H. Sayed, Message from the Editor-in-Chief, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, January 5, 2006. An editorial by the new editor. Excerpt:
I assume my responsibilities as the Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP JASP with a sense of potential and optimism for the future. In a short span of few years, the journal has grown in stature and is now at a position to make further leaps. The rate of submission has doubled since 2002 and the uptake of the open access option has risen to 20% of all published articles....Several features of EURASIP JASP have attracted me to assume this new challenge....EURASIP JASP is one of the few journals in the signal processing field to support the concept of “open access.” In return for a fee paid by the authors, readers can access their articles free on the journal website. This is a useful feature and it will impact the way we publish and access scientific articles in years to come. While this mode of publication is optional for authors, I intend to support and encourage its adoption more widely. Electronic access to information is here to stay and journals need to adapt to this new reality. EURASIP journals have been leading the way in this regard and they have been adopting technology faster than their competitors. Pursuing this strategy will help place EURASIP JASP closer to the reach of readers and researchers and will help increase the impact of the journal.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/23/2006 12:30:00 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.
