Comments on: Scientific Publishing Sucks http://tomorrowelephant.net/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/ a million elephants typing Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Antony Lewis http://tomorrowelephant.net/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-243 Antony Lewis Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:18:34 +0000 http://tomorrowelephant.net/index.php/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-243 <p>I agree. With some other physicists we I have been trying to think up a better solution, and have so far come up with Open Journals - see the outline site at</p> <p>http://arxivjournal.org</p> <p>The idea being to base journals entirely on the widely used eprint sites.</p> I agree. With some other physicists we I have been trying to think up a better solution, and have so far come up with Open Journals - see the outline site at

http://arxivjournal.org

The idea being to base journals entirely on the widely used eprint sites.

]]> By: guerby http://tomorrowelephant.net/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-242 guerby Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:07:59 +0000 http://tomorrowelephant.net/index.php/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-242 <p>PLOS URL: http://plos.org/ Now you have to convince them to go chase in math/physics :)</p> PLOS URL: http://plos.org/ Now you have to convince them to go chase in math/physics :)

]]> By: Peter Suber http://tomorrowelephant.net/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-241 Peter Suber Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:26:53 +0000 http://tomorrowelephant.net/index.php/2005/09/02/scientific-publishing-sucks/#comment-241 <p>Hannu: There's a lot happening in the world of open access. For a daily dose of grounds for hope, see my blog, Open Access News [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html].</p> <p>BTW, Science Commons is doing great work, but PLoS and BMC were using Creative Commons licenses even before Science Commons was launched.</p> <p>Peter</p> Hannu: There’s a lot happening in the world of open access. For a daily dose of grounds for hope, see my blog, Open Access News [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html].

BTW, Science Commons is doing great work, but PLoS and BMC were using Creative Commons licenses even before Science Commons was launched.

Peter

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