On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anne, there are really well-established systems of scholarly peer review.
> There is no need to reinvent the wheel, or add distractions such as
> infoboxes and other bells and whistles.


And those peer review systems have lots and lots of problems as well as
upsides. Lots of people *are* trying to reinvent peer review, including
some very respected scientists.* As an academic science librarian, I can
attest to there being widespread and currently ongoing debates about how to
review scientific knowledge, whether traditional peer review is sufficient,
and how to improve it. The current system for scientific research is often
opaque, messy, prone to failure and doesn't always support innovation, and
lots of smart people are thinking about it.

Erik: aha! I'd forgotten about those case studies, thanks!

-- phoebe

* http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/10/04/open-access-is-not-the-problem/
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