>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:16:45 +0000 >From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Conflating Gate-Keeping with Toll-Gating > >On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Manfredi M.A. La Manna wrote: > >> 3. the suggestion ventilated by someone on the forum that papers posted on >> the web could somehow be refereed by well-disposed readers, in economics is >> simply preposterous; > >Not preposterous, but speculative and untested, with a good number >of prima facie reasons it would be unlikely to succeed in yielding >a literature of a quality comparable to the current one.
Also untested is the ELSSS proposal to pay authors, referees and editors for their contributions. ELSSS is currently calling for volunteers to these roles. Is this a positive development? Leah Halliday Department of Information Science Loughborough University [email protected]
