Jean-Patrick Connerade, Scandals stem from the low priority of peer review Nature 427, 196 (15 January 2004) (access restricted to subscribers). A letter to Nature argues that premium value be placed on peer-reviewing activities, making it one of the criteria for academic advancement and funding recipience. The author advocates for this to prevent "embarrassing fiascos and to ensure that the publication process remains reliable." In doing so, he makes rather an unfortunate generalization, setting up a difference between a peer-reviewed paper, and a "paper that has been uploaded by its authors onto some electronic archive," implying that papers in such archives have not been refereed and are lacking in quality.
Posted by
Garrett at 1/14/2004 03:48:00 PM.
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.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
