Phil Surguy, Soul searching over peer review, National Post, December 2, 2003. A survey of recent peer-review failures. The stories don't directly implicate FOS issues, though they did elicit this comment on journals and archives from Greg Kuperberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Davis: The Bogdanov affair is "not about research. It's about journals and PhDs, which in mathematics and theoretical physics are an afterthought to research. Moreover, most physicists in this area rarely even read journals, because they are a stale alternative to an on-line database called arXiv. Only promotion committees still care about journals."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/08/2002 09:55:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
