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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by n1000 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @08:12AM (#18920504)
Fully agree. But whenever an editorial board (like the one here) is fed up, they might be more likely to make the jump. I believe we may be about to reach a critical mass behind open access, but publishers won't make this easy.
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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by jononor on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @08:38AM (#18920687)
Agreed that it could be useful to have a "go to" project to rally around.

Arxiv.org is very successful for pre-prints, at least in some fields like computer science. Maybe a modern "journal" offering review and editing could be built on top of that? It would utilize open reviews instead of the traditional anonymous private reviews. Once a certain bar has been reached with reviews, the paper can be nominated for appearing in a journal, which editors can decide on.

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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by Vinnl on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @10:37AM (#18921700)
The usual parlance for that is an "overlay journal", and there are quite a few of those now. Many of them use Scholastica [1].

[1] https://scholasticahq.com/

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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by mindcrime on Thursday January 17, 2019 @01:02PM (#18932928)
Yep. Discrete Analysis is perhaps one of the best known of those.

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...

https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/

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