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Open Access journals for Computational Mechanics
Submitted by Mikael Öhman on Wed, 2011-11-23 08:59.In many fields there are excellent choices for publishing open access (even without costing all that much). For computational mechanics that doesn't seem to be the case.
Looking through DOAJ I could mostly only find rather small and obscure journals. What I would like is at least something that gets listed on ScienceDirect (and other common places such as Google Scholar and such). I would write more requirements, but I dont think I am in a position to be picky here. A decent homepage, ability to comment, automatic statistics, online versions, creative commons licensing, decent ranking, etc. would also be on my requirements if I could wish.
Google launches HealthMap and PlosMedicine article -- When a mechanics web-based project?
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Mon, 2008-07-14 13:35.These type of projects are interesting, when a mechanics-based one?
http://www.healthmap.org/en
An example of web-based projects
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Wikipedia on peer review --- an excellent article, an example of wikipedia quality, and interesting anyway!
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Sun, 2008-07-06 16:51.Peer review
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For Wikipedia's Peer Review area, see Wikipedia:Peer review.
For other uses, see Peer review (disambiguation).
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Science's Editor in Chief and "Friends" Discuss Peer Review and Journal Impact.
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Sun, 2008-07-06 16:45.
Science's Editor in Chief and "Friends" Discuss Peer Review and Journal
Impact. (July 4, 2008)
Bruce
Alberts1, Brooks Hanson2
and Katrina L. Kelner3 collaborated to write this
week's Science editorial on peer review. And if for no other reason
than the weekly has one of the highest impact ratings, when Science
speaks science administrators listen.
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Nobel laureate Sulston argues for open medicine
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Sun, 2008-07-06 16:02.Sulston argues for open medicine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7490384.stm
and listen to audio at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7490482.stm
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PlosONE publishes secret of Stradivari violins in wood density
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Wed, 2008-07-02 12:56.Research Article
Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected to address the following errors.
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Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Fri, 2008-06-27 15:16.
Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in "networked
journalism," in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to
give a story its final form.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0-great-new-tool-or-...
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creating a web site and forum for Elsevier journals Editors and Board members
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Thu, 2008-05-22 17:47.
dear Elsevier Editors and boards
after I submitted to the Harvard blog imechanica.org
"My letter of resignation from the board of International Journal of Solids and Structures"
Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Tue, 2008-05-20 14:55. www.micheleciavarella.it
which received so far 1812 reads in only 2 days, I have received many letters that jammed
my E-mail system. To continue my normal operation, since this is not expected as a
full-time occupation, I therefore decided to create, according to many people's suggestion,
the site:-
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"Open source" education
Submitted by MichelleLOyen on Sun, 2007-12-30 20:07.A new AP article appeared today on free access to college's educational materials, particularly spot-lighting the MIT Open Course Ware initiative. Also discussed are available educational materials through iTunes and Youtube. iMechanica has also got a growing repository of course notes on mechanics topics.
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Systematization Schemes for Mechanics and Concept Maps
Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on Fri, 2007-02-23 09:07.1. Introductory
Recently, there has been some active discussion on topics like:
-- Open-source textbooks
-- Comparing lecture notes
-- Unification of mechanics
-- Wikipedia and Citizendium
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What if all papers become openly accessible?
Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Tue, 2006-09-05 00:33.(Originally posted on Applied Mecahnics News on 11 March 2006)
Of all industries that the community of Applied Mechanics is deeply involved with, none is more in a state of flux than the Publishing Industry. The agony as well as the opportunity is mainly created by the Internet. A previous post, Applied Mechanics in the Age of Web 2.0, talked about news reporting for mid-sized communities with members scattered all over the world, communities such as that of Applied Mechanics. Another post, Wikipedia and Applied Mechanics, considered the possibility of creating wikimechanics, an evolving knowledge base that documents everything known about mechanics. This post will focus on publishing of research papers.
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