A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites.
As the news release
for LiquidPublication simply states: "Don't print it; post it." To
disseminate the information, the program has a software platform that
lets other scientists search for what's been posted, leave comments,
link related works, and gather papers and information into their own
personalized online journals -- all for free.
"I think it's exactly what is needed -- a paradigm shift," said peer-review critic David Kaplan
of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. "This is a different system
that utilizes the unique characteristics of the web [to provide] a
different way of looking at manuscripts [and] a different way of
evaluating them."
To read the full, original article click on this link: Publish or post? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences
Author: Jef Akst
