At 11:07 01/02/01 +0000, Leah Halliday wrote:
>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?
I wonder if this proposal has considered the prospect of accumulating a $1M
deficit *per journal* after a couple of years, say. It would be easy to
note other shortcomings of the plan, but that's not for this forum, since
it doesn't advance the forum's objectives one bit.
Steve
