Journal of Maps

Richard writes to draw our attention to a new online scholarly journal, the Journal of Maps, which launched last year and had their first issue this month. From their about page:

The Journal of Maps is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method (where the author pays for the review process), all published maps will be freely distributed to anyone wishing to view them.

Articles and maps are published in PDF format. The maps are first-rate: I had a look at a couple of the geomorphological maps, which are stunning. Free registration is required, about which I have one gripe: it appears that you cannot opt out of receiving their newsletter — I found that you had to check that box, which is not cricket (see Mike Smith’s comment).

Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 10:52 AM
Categories: Cartography, GIS, Scholarly Journals

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They appear to have removed the requirement for subscribing to the email newsletter. (At least the box is un-checked by default now; I wanted the newsletter, so I signed up for it.)

Johndan Johnson-Eilola | 01/30/2005 at 10:42 PM | #

There should be no requirement to sign up for the newsletter and it is not something we expect people to do. If anyone has had this problem please report it (with your OS, web browser etc) as it may be a web browser issue.

And many thanks for the kind comments.

Mike Smith
Editor, Journal of Maps

Mike Smith | 01/31/2005 at 3:04 PM | #

I’m not surprised that it may be browser-related, Mike, Javascript being what it is — for all I know, my submission forms here may be doing something similar!

(For the record, I’m using Safari 1.2.4 on OS X 10.3.7.)

Jonathan Crowe | 01/31/2005 at 4:10 PM | #

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