[Wikimedia-l] (semi-OT) Open access "catastrophic" for Elsevier

[Richard Symonds]

To be fair, organising academics is probably quite like herding cats. I can
see it being expensive (but not quite as expensive as currently!) I wonder:
would it be possible to make it so that in order to publish a paper, a
person has to review two, three, four others as part of their payment?

Or is that a silly idea?[1]

Richard
[1] It's probably a very silly idea

On 25 September 2012 16:19, Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of
> >> how
> >> > to manage such things with volunteers.
> >> >
> >> > Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced
> >> model
> >> > where the most esteemed publications are run by students.
> >>
> >
> > Well, perhaps. But their "peer review" is courtrooms, where the decisions
> > are made publicly and are produced by the justice system free of charge
> to
> > the journals.  Otherwise, the articles are written by students with
> faculty
> > advisors reviewing their work.  I don't think anyone wants medical
> studies
> > to be "peer reviewed" by medical students.
>
> FWIW, I was on a peer-reviewed law journal (there are a few) where
> students managed the reviewer-wrangling process, with the occasional
> aid and input of an also-unpaid faculty advisor.
>
> -Kat
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