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Just an arXiv with peer-review is not enough. There is a lot of room for innovation and improvement. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating
by xvilka 7y ago
Just an arXiv with peer-review is not enough. There is a lot of room for innovation and improvement. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. Check out the last[4] article in that series. There are a few implementations, albeit not covering all features, like Authorea[5] and MIT's PubPub[6] (it is the open source[7]). See also GitXiv[8]. See also the Publishing Reform[9] project. Moreover, there is quite an interesting initiative from DARPA, to create the scientific social network of a kind - Polyplexus[10].
[1] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/ http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi...
[2] https://www.overleaf.com/ https://www.overleaf.com/
[3] https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/
[4] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/ http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-...
[5] https://authorea.com/ https://authorea.com/
[6] https://www.pubpub.org/ https://www.pubpub.org/
[7] https://github.com/pubpub https://github.com/pubpub
[8] https://medium.com/@samim/gitxiv-collaborative-open-computer-science-e5fea734cd45 https://medium.com/@samim/gitxiv-collaborative-open-computer...
[9] https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion
[10] https://polyplexus.com/ https://polyplexus.com/
- shuhari 7y agoI will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas. Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'. http://asone.ai/ http://asone.ai/
- wiggler00m 7y agoWhat is your business model?
- shuhari 7y agoWe plan to take a cut of the crowdfunded transactions, like Patreon or Kickstarter does. We could also show academia-relevant ads on the sidebar. We will never paywall content on our platform.
- sundarurfriend 7y agoWhy is it on a ".ai" domain suffix?
- shuhari 7y agoThe other ones were taken. :(
- iceIX 7y agoThis covers a lot of what we're building at OpenReview.net. Obviously we still long way to go, but we already have some of the major AI/ML conferences using our platform to accept submissions, perform paper matching, and host peer-review forums.
- mseri 7y agoThere are experiments also in terms of peer reviewed open access journals that work as arxiv overlays. In mathematics we have discrete analysis [1] and sigma [2] (at least) which are quite good. Some journals started moving to a fully free open access model, e.g. JEP [3], Documenta Mathematica [4], Acta Mathematica [5] and Annales IF [6] (again at least). I agree with @xvilka that there is lots of room for innovation and exploration, but even in the more traditional setting there is some movement coming from the smaller realities. It seems to me that the big publisher monopoly, which at least in my field is completely unjustified, is the bigger obstacle. [1] https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/ https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/ [2] https://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/ https://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/ [3] https://jep.math.cnrs.fr/index.php/JEP/ https://jep.math.cnrs.fr/index.php/JEP/ [4] https://www.elibm.org/series?q=se:2204 https://www.elibm.org/series?q=se:2204 [5] https://intlpress.com/index.php https://intlpress.com/index.php [6] https://aif.centre-mersenne.org/ https://aif.centre-mersenne.org/