A Different Perspective on Peer Review--Librarians? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 08, 2012, 10:33 (4523 days ago) @ xeno6696

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/7/151235-predatory-scholarly-publishing/fulltext-As this article implies, the entire area of scholarly publishing is sick. Everyone knows my solution. Free access to all 'new discovery' articles. No university or college tenure. Same for high school. Journals supported by academic societies. Articles accepted by the editors of those journals, peer review not required. Journals should be non-profit. Science in the past advanced because all ideas and thinking were freely open for discussion. Look back at 1903 in history. Did Einstein pay to publish? -Look at the history of public education in this country before teacher unionization. Property tax supported free knowledge. We had a well-taught knowledgable public which de Tocqueville raved about.