Author suggests: get rid of for-profit scholarly publishing altogether and let the libraries again host the work of their scholars, as it once was. This new decentralised, federated database of scholarly work would be all the below and more: A single semantic, decentralised, federated database of literature and data; Personalised filtering, sorting and discovery; Peer-review administrated by an independent body; All the metrics you (don't) want (but need); Tagging, bookmarking etc.;Technically feasible today.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Scholarly publishing should be free
Another dreamer??
Author suggests: get rid of for-profit scholarly publishing altogether and let the libraries again host the work of their scholars, as it once was. This new decentralised, federated database of scholarly work would be all the below and more: A single semantic, decentralised, federated database of literature and data; Personalised filtering, sorting and discovery; Peer-review administrated by an independent body; All the metrics you (don't) want (but need); Tagging, bookmarking etc.;Technically feasible today.
Author suggests: get rid of for-profit scholarly publishing altogether and let the libraries again host the work of their scholars, as it once was. This new decentralised, federated database of scholarly work would be all the below and more: A single semantic, decentralised, federated database of literature and data; Personalised filtering, sorting and discovery; Peer-review administrated by an independent body; All the metrics you (don't) want (but need); Tagging, bookmarking etc.;Technically feasible today.
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