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Then you'll have replaced the problem of making research results actually available somewhere. But what it doesn't solve, is the problems of a) deciding what re
by Vinnl 6y ago
Then you'll have replaced the problem of making research results actually available somewhere. But what it doesn't solve, is the problems of a) deciding what research to read and b) deciding which researchers to hire.
Note that the current system, which relies on the brand name of the journals in which works (or an author's works) are published, is very flawed, but it's what people use, and is therefore what's making people refrain from actually publishing in those journals the universities would found.
(Disclosure: I volunteer for https://plaudit.pub https://plaudit.pub, a project that aims to contribute to solving the mentioned problems to enable transitioning to Open Access journals.)
- sitkack 6y agoI love the idea of plaudit, it wold be interesting to tie into dlbp or semanticscholar. As it is now, I have to see if a researcher tweets paper recommendations. Are you working with either? I am sure you are aware, posting for the wider audience. Availability is the hard part, formats, indexing, a handle so that it can be referenced. We already have an awesome model for this with the e-print archives [2..=4]. As for what to read, this is what overlay journals are for! [1]. By splitting the mechanics of submission, serving, basic vetting, etc. any other group of people can create as many overlay journals as they deem necessary. Sorting, ranking and clustering of the research now is not coupled to getting the knowledge recorded. This excellent article [5] linked from the wikipedia entry has the perfect description of the concept, >>> The Open Journal of Astrophysics works in tandem with manuscripts posted on the pre-print server arXiv. Researchers submit their papers from arXiv directly to the journal, which evaluates them by conventional peer review. Accepted versions of the papers are then re-posted to arXiv and assigned a DOI, and the journal publishes links to them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_journal [2] https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/ [3] https://www.biorxiv.org/ https://www.biorxiv.org/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eprint_archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eprint_archives [5] https://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-arxiv-gather-momentum-1.19102 https://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-...
- Vinnl 6y ago> I love the idea of plaudit, it wold be interesting to tie into dlbp or semanticscholar. As it is now, I have to see if a researcher tweets paper recommendations. Are you working with either? I'm not, unfortunately, but if have any contacts there please do point them my way (Vincent@plaudit.pub) :)