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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Nice, I am really curious what becomes of this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

America's a plutocracy, so there's like a 90% chance nothing will come of it.

What the scientific community needs to do is make publishers irrelevant by creating a series of FOSS projects similar to the fediverse — architected, coded, owned, and operated by the scientific community — with the explicit goal of making a universal scientific journal where peer review is open, transparent, and at cost.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a handful of publishers to gate-keep peer-review in 2024. All of the problems are technically solved, and inexpensive. The only thing that's necessary is the will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That already exists. It's called arXiv, and is used by mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists. Everyone else has to pay up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

arXiv doesn't have peer review as far as I know

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