Jane Shevtsov wrote:
The physical sciences seem to be halfway there with arXiv.org .
Jane
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:22 PM, joseph gathman <[email protected]> wrote:
Jane wrote:
The journal's contribution is coordinating peer review, formatting the
paper and, most importantly, disseminating the paper.
It seems we are approaching the time when journals become obsolete for these
functions. We could do all this through the internet right now. Imagine just
posting your paper here on ECOLOG-L, where anybody can review it and comment
publicly. It would make for more dynamic review and discussion of research.
So now it seems the main function of journals is to make the publication
"official" so it will count toward retention and tenure and other professional
tally counting.
There is Nature Precedings (http://precedings.nature.com/) which allows
you to do just this.
Bob
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