To be fair, organising academics is probably quite like herding cats. I can see it being expensive (but not quite as expensive as currently!) I wonder: would it be possible to make it so that in order to publish a paper, a person has to review two, three, four others as part of their payment?
Or is that a silly idea?[1] Richard [1] It's probably a very silly idea On 25 September 2012 16:19, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 September 2012 21:20, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > It's funny, most organizations point to our community as am example of > >> how > >> > to manage such things with volunteers. > >> > > >> > Another example: law reviews offer an excellent and widely reproduced > >> model > >> > where the most esteemed publications are run by students. > >> > > > > Well, perhaps. But their "peer review" is courtrooms, where the decisions > > are made publicly and are produced by the justice system free of charge > to > > the journals. Otherwise, the articles are written by students with > faculty > > advisors reviewing their work. I don't think anyone wants medical > studies > > to be "peer reviewed" by medical students. > > FWIW, I was on a peer-reviewed law journal (there are a few) where > students managed the reviewer-wrangling process, with the occasional > aid and input of an also-unpaid faculty advisor. > > -Kat > > -- > Your donations keep Wikipedia free: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: [email protected], > [email protected] > (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: > mindspillage > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
