Overlay journal
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An overlay journal or overlay ejournal is a type of
The editors of an overlay journal locate suitable material from open access repositories and public domain sources, read it, and evaluate its worth. This evaluation may take the form of the judgement of a single editor or editors, or a full peer review process.
Public validation of subsequently approved texts may take several forms. At its most formal, the editor may republish the article with explicit approval. Approval might take the form of an addition to the text or its metadata. Or the editor may simply link to the article, via the table of contents of the overlay journal. An alternative approach is to link to articles already published in various open access ejournals, but adding value by grouping scattered articles together as a single themed issue of the overlay journal. Such themed issues allow the focussed coverage of relatively obscure or newly emerging topics.
Episciences is an initiative by the Center for Direct Scientific Communication to host overlay journals.[1][2] It hosts among others the computer science journals Logical Methods in Computer Science and Fundamenta Informaticae.
In 2019,
History
The term 'overlay journal' was first coined by Paul Ginsparg in 1996.
References
Further reading
- Open Video Project: Overlay Journal prototype demonstration (2006)
- "Investigating overlay journals: introducing the RIOJA Project". D-Lib Magazine. September/October 2007
- Lund Medical Faculty Monthly
- Gibney, Elizabeth (2016). "Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum". Nature. 530 (7588): 117–118. PMID 26854297.
- JMIRx (JMIRx.org)