Also see the now finished LiquidPub project by the university of Trento, Springer, and others, for more ideas and views on peer review in the digital age: http

Also see the now finished LiquidPub project by the university of Trento, Springer, and others, for more ideas and views on peer review in the digital age: http://liquidpub.org/ http://liquidpub.org/ This paper about journals: http://wiki.liquidpub.org/mediawiki/upload/9/9b/Liquid-journal-proposal_v0.13.pdf http://wiki.liquidpub.org/mediawiki/upload/9/9b/Liquid-journ... (Liquid Journals) And this paper about peer review: http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1226695 http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1226695 (Publish and Perish) Though in a way the differences between peoples descriptions and views are details mostly, as what is clear is that peer review will change, and that it will move away from publisher-control. Imho the biggest difficulty will be the social aspect; breaking the feedback-loop between journal-publications and perceived academic credit. Because until individual scholars can escape from the social trap of journal-publishing & handing over their copyrights, without harming their careers, they will be unlikely to do so. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap, and a great article on social traps: http://www.agls.uidaho.edu/agec467/agec467/Other%20readings/Platt.PDF http://www.agls.uidaho.edu/agec467/agec467/Other%20readings/...)