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

[David Gerard]

On 25 September 2012 16:24, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

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


It's sort of accepted as the implicit deal: you want your papers
reviewed, you should participate in the reviewing.


- d.