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Having left academia after my PhD, but still doing research in the private sector, I hate the scientific publishing industry wholeheartedly. It is something of
by Kydlaw 4y ago
Having left academia after my PhD, but still doing research in the private sector, I hate the scientific publishing industry wholeheartedly. It is something of the past that is definitely keeping us, as a society, from making progress.
There are more and more initiatives to create new tools around the literature (Semantic Scholar, ResearchRabbit and stuff like that) but less around moving he publishing industry as a whole.
(I'm not affiliated with the previous organizations though I think Semantic Scholar have an API for peer review matching that might be useful in your case).
If you need contributors I'd be interested.
- tensor 4y agoI don't think scientific publishing is perfect, but I strongly disagree that it's somehow holding back society. T he number one thing that is holding back society in my opinion is that the vast majority don't think science is important or useful, and even worse, think that their opinions are somehow the same as scientific knowledge. Even convincing people in industry that basing decisions on data can be hard, let alone convincing them to use something approximating the scientific method. In short, if people wanted to read science papers but couldn't, I might agree with you, but people don't even want to.