Improbable, but not Serious...
May. 28th, 2008 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcroftAIR, the Annals of Improbable Research (which is the successor to the Journal of Irreproducible Results) recently went Open Access. Hooray! Good for them. They're putting their back catalog online for free, too, as time permits.
AIR is not a cheap magazine, but it's good and it humanizes science. Some people like that, some don't.
The hitch? They were encouraged by a number of readers to submit AIR to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), who apparently are only handling Acceptable Open Access Journals (DAOAJ). The first A is silent.
While I find this annoying, I'm slightly more annoyed at their overhunting on the comma-veldt.
AIR is not a cheap magazine, but it's good and it humanizes science. Some people like that, some don't.
The hitch? They were encouraged by a number of readers to submit AIR to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), who apparently are only handling Acceptable Open Access Journals (DAOAJ). The first A is silent.
While I find this annoying, I'm slightly more annoyed at their overhunting on the comma-veldt.
It is not, however, scientific or scholarly in the way we expect journals in DOAJ to be, meaning making people think, only.Read AIR for yourself and decide if it's more scientific or scholarly than a Swiss journal of feminist bible study, or the journal for entertainment and sports lawyers. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. At least they know when to stop with the half-stops...
