On 5/22/2012 6:55 PM, FT2 wrote:
Is there any particular reason why high quality peer review cannot be crowd sourced or self-organized?
Tradition / organizational inertia / vested interests who are making billions of $ in the current model (yes, billions!*)
"In 2010, Elsevier reported a profit margin of 36% on revenues of $3.2 billion." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/researchers-boycott-elsevier-journal-publisher.html?_r=1
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