I think that its major role is in fields where there is serious basic disagreement azmong qualified people about the nature of the subject or the appropriate research methods. As an outsider, I will hazard the guess that this applies to some of the social science fields in particular.
Greg Kuperberg wrote: > ... > but I agree with you that peer review > needs more structure than just letting readers "write in the margins". > That's been tried before: it may be okay for Amazon.com but it will > never work for math papers. > -- > /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) > / \ > \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ > \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print * -- David Goodman Biology Librarian and Co-chair, Electronic Journals Task force Princeton University Library Princeton, NJ 08544-0001 phone: 609-258-3235 fax: 609-258-2627 e-mail: [email protected]
