The Scholar’s Space

Actually, what I meant to say and got wrong in the headline is that the same group which publishes BioMed Central’s fleet of Open Access research journals is about to launch a companion structure for physics and math. Physmath Central will soon publish the first number of its first journal, to be called Physics A.  This seems to me to be very good news for OA supporters, since it indicates a certain stability in the publishing effort devoted to biosciences, and that stability is sufficiently constant to allow the publishers to think about expansion.  One possible problem I see is that arXiv already offers a lot of the same advantages that publication in Physmath Central would confer.  We shall see:
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