From the Brian Lehrer videocast (more transcript excerpts below): will the net kill the age-old system of peer review in academic publishing? knowledge: liberated and threatened by web publishing. sounds like common sense. publish-or-perish is the toughest part of being a professor; research and write and be OKd by experts in the field; peer review; elite journal is a must for top-job and tenure; it’s been the system for decades; the web is a disruptive force: publishing without a press, open peer review, show your work, in progress, publicly; what does this mean for the advancement of learning itself and for the politics of academia?
