E-journals

[stoutfellow]

A couple of weeks ago - in fact, I think it was exactly two weeks - I submitted a paper ("On the Derivative of a Vertex Polynomial") to an online journal. It was the first time I'd gone that route.

This afternoon, I received word that the paper had been accepted.

I just faxed the copyright assignment sheet to them.

I expect to have the galleys in hand in no more than another week, and to see the paper published by the end of November.

I think I love e-journals.

Comments

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

There's some history behind it. The editor-in-chief, Y, and I are both participants in a mailing list devoted to Euclidean geometry. A few years ago, someone on-list proposed a problem, and several of us offered different ways of solving it. Y was apparently intrigued by my methods, and invited me to write a paper about the problem. I never got around to doing so, partly because of my own tendency to procrastinate, partly because I didn't really feel that I had enough of interest to say. I continued to think about the problem off and on, and eventually saw a way to generalize it quite a bit; the result was this paper. I think that Y may have been predisposed to accept this paper because of that history. (I did remind him of it in my cover letter.)

But I think the main reason for the fast turnaround is probably that it's an e-journal.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

The fact that the editor *invited* you to write a paper for the journal is a very nice feather! And then getting it published is just the icing on the feather. Or was that feathers on a cake? Whatever, congratulations!