Joshua M. Pearce is the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation at the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation. He holds appointments at Ivey Business School, the top ranked business school in Canada and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Western University in Canada, a top 1% global university. At Western he runs the Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology (FAST) research group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and to reduce poverty. His research spans areas of engineering of solar photovoltaic technology, open hardware, and distributed recycling and additive manufacturing (DRAM) using RepRap 3-D printing. He wrote the Open-Source Lab and Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects.
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It is already indexed by Google Scholar - if it is able to pull an impact factor this will change everything. My only concern is that the literature gets further diluted with garbage - although having the reviews right next to the article can immediately say if it is appropriate or not. I am not sure I see the point of immediate publication - more important is fast review. If the publishing fees were paid to reviewers and we automated the publishing process on line -that would seem like the best solution to all of the current systems problems.
This is another great example of a low-cost open source scientific tool -- for a lot more see the list I maintain here http://www.appropedia.org/Open-source_Lab