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How does one, practically speaking, curate article publication in a world with arXiv? Curation kind of requires gatekeepers, and good gatekeeping is a full-tim
by mumblemumble 3y ago
How does one, practically speaking, curate article publication in a world with arXiv?
Curation kind of requires gatekeepers, and good gatekeeping is a full-time job that needs to be paid for. In the days of print journals, there was both a motivation, because you can only print so many articles per month due to materials costs, and a steady revenue stream to pay for it, because everyone has to pay for the journals to get any access to articles at all. The Internet's been eroding both of those factors for a good quarter century now.