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I love the kind of journal you're talking about. Like, maybe, PLoS?

In fact we are talking about a PLoS model, and thank you so much for noticing that. Woohoo!

Also, I really like your idea about some kind of introduction to the texts. We were planning to write editorials with each issue, and I think adding in contextualizing and background info to the essays might be really valuable, to sort of "meta" them into place so people understand why the research is relevant to a larger field.

We're hacking at the Web site but are currently plagued with pesky technical issues. We are DYING to release it, let me tell you, and we will totally announce it the moment it's finally, finally up.

We are using open-source journal software with a good rep in the industry, but we need the software to do so much more than simply index and present the articles and permit commenting. It also needs to permit trafficking of MSS through blind peer review, plus do a bunch of stuff related to layout.

Thanks for all your useful links—I'm totally checking them out.