Searching papers for some time now... and most of them i cant access because they require payment... Hail to accessible science. But huh wait a sec... submitter pay... readers pay... spammers pay... univs pay... something is wrong here!?! It is weird to know that journals used to be needed, as a medium to exchange science (the only valid way possible back than)... Where for press-material, journal-distribution, press-work and workers costs where the downside making this journals relatively costly but better distributed. But then why we need journals with the current stage of the internet!?!(rhetorical question) Peer reviewers?? Everybody likes to be a peer-reviewer in its field... so getting reviewers is not a problem, there are good ways to fix this efficiently. (ask me if you want to know) Distribution?? Definitely not a problem (just make it accessible on the internet. Press-work and material costs?? why pressing/printing bytes while we have pdf (and own/univ printers for those who insist to print them) Workers??? Templates can be designed by very few person and restricted by computers (given latex like setups) Availability??? Universities can store there own papers and raw data stored since this is for there own interest as well. (obviously storing it in a in a standard way) Accessibility??? Something that generates uuids for articles (like DOI but then for free) and redirects to the original storing place (make it like an API). (note if Wikimedia foundation can exist that the following can also) The only cost that need to be covered is: redirection-servers (paper access API), paper-submission-servers, peer-review-scatter-servers, peer-review-submission-servers, paper-search-servers (use google), paper-caching-servers (geographical and request rates, use google), wiki-server (for help, standards and software), paper-backup-servers (Optional), And very few designers and programmers.... some of these things can be maintained by community e.g. software (take Blender as an example). So if Wikimedia foundation can exist than this can also exist. Imagine if you divide the total costs of expected load by the total of expected downloaded articles by different people. All these journals make science divide and lose!!! This makes one wonder why we have journals again!?!
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:55:15 +0000
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