The Journal of Open Hardware (JOH) is an international open access peer reviewed academic publication for open hardware research and development.
JOH accepts submissions which cover technical, legal, scientific, educational, economic, and sociocultural aspects of hardware design, fabrication, and distribution. We invite submissions from various fields, such as (but not limited to) human-machine interaction, biotechnology, engineering, physics, computer science, humanities and social sciences, among others.
The journal’s primary goal is to bridge academic fields which contribute to open practices of design, manufacture, and dissemination of hardware, as well as the multiple dynamics that shape these processes. We make this possible with a transdisciplinary editorial board and different article types: hardware metapapers for scientific and educational designs, full-length papers on issues in open hardware, and reviews. We help authors to achieve best community standards of openness and preservation with our guidelines and constructive peer review by the Open Science Hardware community.
We are the only journal to review hardware documentation alongside manuscripts and to ensure that projects are not only replicable, but also modifiable, which is at the heart of the open source principle and its potential to drive innovation. We are committed to the principles of libre technologies, including Free Software, gateway, wetware, materials as well as hardware. Through our initiative, we aim to advance the collaborative development of Open Hardware within and beyond academia.
COVID-19 has led to the largest mobilization of distributed, rapid manufacturing of open hardware ever seen. The Journal of Open Hardware is launching a Special Collection on the open-source response to the pandemic.
Open technologies have become an important part of relief efforts during major crises in recent history. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing another peak in activities around open technologies at an unprecedented scale. The pandemic has led to the largest mobilization of distributed, rapid manufacturing and open hardware ever seen. This has resulted in hundreds of designs for personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and more by groups around the world, being manufactured by thousands of individuals, community centers, and small and large corporations.
Read the entire call here.Posted on 22 May 2020
The Journal of Open Hardware (JOH) is accepting submissions for 2020.
JOH was launched in March 2017 as the first international open access peer reviewed academic forum for an interdisciplinary discussion of open hardware research. The journal accepts submissions which cover technical, legal, scientific, economic, educational and sociocultural aspects of hardware design, fabrication, and distribution. We invite submissions from various fields, such as (but not limited to) human-machine interaction, biotechnology, engineering, physics, computer science, humanities and social sciences, among others.
We are the only journal to review hardware documentation alongside manuscripts and to ensure that projects are not only replicable, but also modifiable, which is at the heart of the open source principle and its potential to drive innovation.
To read the entire Call, click here.
Posted on 22 Jan 2020
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