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Comment on peer reviewing by christopher de la Torre

christopher de la Torre — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:26:44 +0000

1. should your peer review experience considered a gold standard across disciplines, and 2. is there some facet, both absent and real, that might improve it?

Comment on peer review debate by Gerd Moe-Behrens

Gerd Moe-Behrens — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:25:32 +0000

The peer review system is dysfunctional in the context of the digital age, to slow, to repressive, no credits for the reviewer. The reviewer comments are unpublished….. My guess this system will be substituted by post publication review in the context of social networks. Scientific papers will loos their staid concept and evolve into a dynamic discourse.

Comment on should open access journals charge for submissions? by Gerd Moe-Behrens

Gerd Moe-Behrens — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:15:40 +0000

It costs money to run a journal. As long as we have a monetary system we need some kind of financing. However, maybe someone can come up with a great alternative business concept. On one hand it feels wrong, that the author have to pay to get published. The correct way should be that you earn some money. Especially think I about the situation of post docs, highly educated, but the salary is a scandal. If you do your post doc e.g. in NYC it is impossible to cover your expenses with the salary. Many people have to borrow money in order to finance their work. It would be great, if they could make some money from the paper they publish and in many cases really worked very hard for…. However, this discussion might be pure theoretical for the case (as I guess) that the scientific journal in it’s present form will not survive the move into the digital age. WE might soon need to rethink the business model behind academic since and basic research and adapt it to modern reality.

Comment on submission fees in open access journals by christopher de la Torre

christopher de la Torre — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:44:40 +0000

I appreciate this well-articulated response. the concept of Open Access can be difficult to master for interested outsiders—even for insiders looking to catch up; OA is evolving rapidly and it’s good to have orgs like OMICS, to clarify essential points like these.

Question: what are your thoughts re ‘cascade peer review’? i.e. is it related to ‘negative results’ publishing, if so how close are the two concepts? or is cascade peer review a way to handle volume, workload and/or ‘appropriation’ of texts?

Comment on should open access journals charge for submissions? by christopher de la Torre

christopher de la Torre — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:42:20 +0000

more on editorial triage here: http://www.contentious.com/2004/11/16/triage-editing/

Comment on submission fees in open access journals by Should Open Access Journals Charge Submission Fees? | C.DLT

Should Open Access Journals Charge Submission Fees? | C.DLT — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:41:36 +0000

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Comment on submission fees in open access journals by open access journals

open access journals — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:20:26 +0000

OMICS GROUP INCORPORATION
Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. Subsidized journals are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center; those requiring payment are typically financed by money made available to researchers for the purpose from a public or private funding agency, as part of a research grant. There have also been several modifications of open access journals that have considerably different natures: hybrid open access journals and delayed open access journals.
Open access journals (sometimes called the “gold road to open access”) are one of the two general methods for providing open access. The other one (sometimes called the “green road”) is self-archiving in a repository. The publisher of an open access journal is known as an “open access publisher”, and the process, “open access publishing”.

Comment on Carl Sagan on science education by christopher de la Torre

christopher de la Torre — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:18:47 +0000

Distance Learning Technology (DLT) is a playground for educators and economists, where education can be provided for a fraction of the cost yet be just as viable (more viable, really) than anything we see today. more education, less exploitation = the wave of the future if we want it to be! in case you haven’t seen this Charlie Rose interview.. Salman Khan talks about the Khan Academy (2011)

Comment on Carl Sagan on science education by Gerd Moe-Behrens

Gerd Moe-Behrens — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:08:06 +0000

Carl Sagan is one of my heroes. I think he did an awesome job in communicating science. I still listen today sometimes to his videos, if I am looking for inspiration of a talk. … – It looks fro me, that science education made a big step with open courses from Stanford, Udacity, Mitx….. These open and free courses really remix and redefine education. They have already been a big success. These awesome efforts will for sure increase the education level for people.

Comment on crowdsourced vs. open source by christopher de la Torre

christopher de la Torre — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:03:40 +0000

a pleasure to pass this on, Gerd!

as I posted in the Leukippos group on FB (sharing with readers here): I see how both are beneficial (open source for economics/governance, crowdsourcing for data aggregation/stats/polling..) both systems with democratic values at the core.

Pedro’s response: Yes, and some common objectives. Different actors. I agree, both beneficial. Both opposite to institutionalized greed.

thoughts?