That's an interesting question...

One weakness of the academic publishing system has been that it never
cared much about reproducible scientific results. Hopefully that
segment of academia can muster some way of supporting efforts to
support / refute such work. This will be difficult because of
communication issues - it's all too easy to refute something different
from the original. But, also, because of human social issues - people
do not like dealing with failures.

But, also, not everything is science.

So I expect things to fragment somewhat - there's the political
patronage side of things, the engineering practicality side of things,
the scientific reproducibility and extension work side of things,
there's the artistic merit side of things, there's the historical
perspectives side of things, there's the health benefit side of
things, there's the accounting verification side of things, and so
on...

People who can tie into widespread support will tend to do well
regardless (think: football, for example). Others... well, I think
it's going to depend somewhat on the discipline.

I don't think the peer review system is going to just go away, but I
think it's going to be seeing some different competition...

Working code (github contributions, perhaps) might be one example of
this. But computerized platforms tend to come and go far more quickly
than the printed page.

Mostly, I guess... anything involving people tends to need concerted
effort to deal with.

This was probably not a useful answer.

-- 
Raul


On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've given up writing for Vector. (That's a terrible thing to say for
> someone still loosely attached to the Vector committee.)
>
> Why write a letter on vellum with a quill pen when you can pick up the
> phone?
>
> Of course, if I still had an academic reputation to defend, funding sources
> to keep sweet, administrators to browbeat, pretty students to wow, I'd
> think differently. My shelf full of journals would be like the diploma on
> the wall. But the old systems are withering away.
>
> Yet academics continue to need accreditation, good peer-reviews,
> publications for their CV (in case they get hounded out of their school).
> What's to replace the old systems? Facebook Likes?
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:00 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I asked for feedback on choosing one of 2 topics but received no reply.
>>
>>       From: Cliff Reiter <[email protected]>
>>  To: [email protected]
>>  Sent: Monday, March 5, 2018 10:54 AM
>>  Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] RV: JoJ 2018
>>
>> Dear J forum,
>> Writing for the Journal of J or Vector is different from writing for the
>> Jforums or Wiki. All those venues are a valuable resource for us who
>> work with J. I encourage us to supply all those forums with material. I
>> submitted a paper to Vector a few months ago:
>> http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501760
>> and I noted that they too didn't have an issue in 2017.
>>
>> I plan to submit an article to JoJ in a month or so. I would rather not
>> be the only article in an issue. Anyone else game to submit notes/papers
>> to the journals most relevant to J? I would love to see our journals
>> have the some of the awesome energy that the forums have!
>> Best, Cliff
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/2018 7:25 AM, mikel paternain wrote:
>> > Hi everybody
>> >
>> > We have not received any contributions to publish in 2017.
>> >
>> > JoJ was born to collect works on J.
>> >
>> > Send contributions to [email protected]<http://
>> webmail.journalofj.com/imp/message.php?mailbox=INBOX.Enviados&index=17#>
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
>> > JoJ
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