[Insight-users] The Insight Journal: Zen and The Art of taking researchers out of the Dark Ages of scientific publishing

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Norberto,


I'm not aware of Journals in the general area of image processing
that have the same features as the Insight Journal.



The closest Journals that I'm aware of, are:



   A) "Source Code for Biology and Medicine"
       http://www.scfbm.org/

       - Accepts reader's comments online (but not open peer-review)

       - Open Access (real one), authors retain copyright, and
         license papers under a Creative Commons license.

         That is, papers are labeled as:

        "© 2008 <authors>, licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
         This is an open access article distributed under the
         terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
           (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
         which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
         in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."


      As you see, SCFBM is a Journal from BioMed Central.

      They are the pioneers of Open Access, and by having created
      thousands of Open Access Journals they have demonstrated
      that obsessive copyright restrictions, and prohibitions
      on the dissemination of scientific information *are not*
      the behaviors that research communities need from their
      Journals.

      They were among the first ones in the Open Access Revolution.




   B) "SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences"
       http://epubs.siam.org/SIIMS/siims_toc.html

       - Open Access *BUT*

         The journal requires copyright transfer from authors,
         and then it forbids redistribution.

         That is, all papers are labeled as:

          "Copyright © by SIAM. Unauthorized reproduction
           of this article is prohibited."

         Therefore if you download a paper from this journal
         *and you print it*, you will be committing a federal crime,
         and you may be fined for up to $250,000, or may be sentenced
         up to a 5 years in a federal prison.


         In my opinion this is "fake" open access,
         and gets dangerously close to "entrapment"...




     C) PLoS ONE

              http://www.plosone.org/home.action

         This is the *most progressive Scientific Journal* today.
         [...after the Insight Journal, of course...  :-)  ]

         They have

           - Open Access (real one) with Creative Common Licenses
           - Readers can comment on papers on line

         They have a taste for reproducibility:

         Quote from the author guidelines:

          " Techniques used have been documented in
            sufficient detail to allow replication."

         but are still obsessed with "innovation"...




As you see,
The have only a couple of the features of the Insight Journal.



In particular, they:


    a) Do not perform verification of reproducibility


    b) Do not require source code to be provided
       (A) is "about" software, but the software
       doesn't have to be submitted with the paper


    c) Do not perform public non-anonymous peer-review


    d) Do not rate reviewers


    e) Readers can't review papers
       (they can only post comments in (A) and (C)).


    f) Do not accept multiple revisions of a paper
       (allowing authors to make corrections and
        improvements).


    g) Do not perform continuous peer-review


    h) Do not post papers online immediately after
       submission.




All that being said,


Please note that you can submit paper in the general
area of image processing to the Insight Journal.      :-)



     Regards,


        Luis



-------------------------
Norberto Goussies wrote:
> Luis,
>     Is there a journal like the Insight Journal but for general image
> processing topics?
> 
> Best,
> NG
>