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| Prof. Dr. Werner Paulus |
Dr. Werner Paulus of the University of Munster, Germany, recently wrote in to share news of an exciting venture he and his colleagues have just launched:
"After
editing Acta Neuropathologica for 14 years and after founding and editing Acta
Neuropathologica Communications for 5 years, I have stepped down by the end of
2018 as editor of these two journals. A few weeks ago, together with colleagues
from around the world, I have launched freeneuropathology.org . This is not
just another neuropath journal, it´s a new type of publishing model without
publisher. The “trick” is that scientists undertake the classical job of the
publisher such as copyediting, layout, promotion, maintenance of the website
etc. This makes the journal more efficient and more flexible, and it makes more
fun because we can design the journal as we like and do not have to follow the
business-driven interests of commercial publishers. It´s entirely free for
readers and for authors (diamond open access). It´s from neuropathologists for
neuropathologists, based on enthusiasm and voluntariness. We are very excited
about this new approach and think that this might be the future of publishing
in general, not only in the field of neuropathology. If you are interested, you
can find more background information on the journal website and in the
inaugural editorial: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/fnp/article/view/2610/2480"
