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Why aren’t all scholarly papers just published as HTML on the author’s website? This is literally what the web was made for. Journals could still exist to peer
by imgabe 2y ago
Why aren’t all scholarly papers just published as HTML on the author’s website? This is literally what the web was made for.
Journals could still exist to peer review and aggregate links, so you’d have the prestige of being in the journal, but there’s no reason to restrict access.
- oaiey 2y agoBecause the personal home page is not called Science or Nature. And is not reviewed etc. Also could be pirates. System is broken, do not get me wrong. But just a homepage is not the solution
- imgabe 2y agoSo Science or Nature peer-reviews the home page and then links to it from their page. You get the prestige from being linked to by a major journal. Everyone can publish anything, but the journals can lend credibility, which is all they do anyway.
- teekert 2y agoPerhaps this is a nice usecase for Nostr [0], everything is federated but signed with private keys(identities) that can be verifiable (ie via a custom domain/url). [0] https://nostr.com/ https://nostr.com/
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