As long as tenure committees insist we publish in peer reviewed journals. We should all collectively turn towards preprint services.
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That is a good point. It's tenure criteria that are ultimately responsible for this.
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Until micro-payments for content happen.
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That may be the answer in the case of newspapers, but I doubt it is in the case of journals.
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They will need to feel the cold hand of business death around their necks before acting.
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Great project would be to raise money to buy Nature, Science, Physical Review, etc and open them and reward reproducibility
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It's a brand problem- authors 'buy' access to a journal's brand. Make something with a better brand. Next buy Elsevier.
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Also, "journal brand" is deeply tied to career metrics. So that's where the incentives are going awry.
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The challenge is recreating the prestige of limited acceptance journals in a unlimited distribution world.
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And intentionally NOT an ICO...too much garbage out there these days.
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something something Aaron Schwarz :(
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Thx for the mention! We've a database of 60+million articles from journals around the globe. Would love to hear more about UBio!
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We use robots to automate transactional processes (e.g. booking a flight) and provide as APIs to travel websites/apps
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I met Vivian briefly at an event at Shack 15. (I'm a friend of Jorn's)
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...and the crazy thing is: even behind paywalls, the authors don't get paid! (Sadly speaking from own experience

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Good thing some of the smartest scientists are on this. Check out http://www.opencon2017.org/ . Inspiring to see who is working on this.
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