[Foundation-l] Black market science

[David Gerard]

On 6 July 2011 20:58, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need a Wikijournal project, where scientists can do all the
> functions of a journal without any prior approval--  collectively form
> groups, review, and publish.
> Free content is going to capture science eventually-- scientists want
> open content too badly for the research journal monopoly to last
> forever.    The only question is-- how can WM help ignite this
> revolution waiting to happen?  If we're really lucky, can we ourselves
> be the home to the successor of the for-profit journal system.


Academic peer-review is a rather un-wiki process. Possibly a first
step is encouraging arXiv-like preprint archives for other fields -
arXiv has become pretty much *the* first place to stake out your
credit in physics.


- d.