Slashdot: Are Academic Journals Obsolete?

by tzvicky

A new discussion driven by the question about a role of academic journals in the world of easy access to the excess of information accessible online is going on at Slashdot today (link). Young academics are writing along with non-academic people discussing the impact of the journals on science itself, scientific carrier and the issues regarding the free access to scientific data. To cite one opinion about the peer-review (by Ichoran): ” But even with these flaws, the process does a pretty good job at rejecting junk”.

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