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No journal besides Onarbor gives you money to publish. In fact, most journals charge you thousands of dollars to publish (PLOS One charges $1,200). Onarbor is p
by untilHellbanned 12y ago
No journal besides Onarbor gives you money to publish. In fact, most journals charge you thousands of dollars to publish (PLOS One charges $1,200). Onarbor is publishing and funding in one platform, there is no comparison with any journal.
Also, Onarbor enables infinite reviews. PLOS One and other journals have 2-3 reviewers, whom in most cases are your cronies who will accept your work no matter what. Traditional evaluation is broken and virtually no academics respect it. Onarbor easily 10X's the status quo of vetting work.
- lvs 12y agoOnarbor is publishing and funding in one platform Great pitch, but it's still just an attempt to end-run the funding process. There should indeed be systematic solutions to the current problems, but this attempt is just a recipe for funding snake oil. Traditional evaluation is broken and virtually no academics respect it. There's plenty to criticize about peer review and about the big journals, but to say "virtually no academics respect it" is just factually untrue.
- untilHellbanned 12y ago"this attempt is just a recipe for funding snake oil." Everything is snake oil and an end-run. Have you ever read Nature? Have you ever submitted a grant to the NIH? ""virtually no academics respect it" is just factually untrue." Virtually no reasonable academics respect it. Read this, an interview of Sydney Brenner, no doubt one of the most important biologist ever. http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/02/24/how-academia-and-publishing-are-destroying-scientific-innovation-a-conversation-with-sydney-brenner/ http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/02/24/how-academ...
- lvs 12y agoEverything is snake oil and an end-run. It sounds to me like you're conceding the argument. I don't disagree with your sentiments about the quality of review, but manufacturing an outlet to completely sidestep peer review (the key word being "peer") does nothing to improve the situation. In fact, it runs directly counter to your stated ambitions.
- untilHellbanned 12y agoI've already addressed peer review with you earlier in this thread. You need to look closer at the site. Also, Onarbor devised reputation building to be similar to what Stackoverflow (SO) is doing with Reputation for computer programmers (REF below). The reputation you earn on SO is replacing the C.V. in hiring decisions across silicon valley. Onarbor more or less replicates SO's Reputation system with the analogous intent to replace existing academia advancement mechanisms. ref: http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation