SPARC Partners with Optics Express

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced that the Optical Society of America's Optics Express had been selected as a SPARC "Leading Edge" partner. The partnership is intended to call attention to the potential for open access publishing in the society-publishing environment by publicizing the success of journals such as Optics Express. Ranked in the top ten optics journals by ISI, Optics Express was among the first peer-reviewed open-access journals in the marketplace and has played an increasingly important role for OSA since the journal's founding in 1997.

From the beginning, OSA designed Optics Express to be an "author-centric" journal. Its online peer-review process and rapid turnaround from submission to publication -- averaging 47 days --were groundbreaking steps. Free publication of color figures and acceptance of all kinds of multimedia also helped boost the journal's standing among authors. Its early commitment to electronic-only publication was a bold step that kept operating costs down.

Posted by Tom on December 07, 2004