On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, J.W.T.Smith wrote: > Why don't we just drop the idea of 'publishers' and 'journals' altogether? > Using old names for new roles only serves to confuse. > Note - I know peer review is not new but separating it from *journal > publishing* is. > > John Smith, > University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Journals certify quality with a known brand-name. They will and should continue doing that. Whether the articles appear in paper or online, whether for fee or for free, is irrelevant to that underlying quality control and certification function that journals have always performed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad har...@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science har...@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 1703 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 1703 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/
