ScienceBloggers discuss the advantages of open science and debate the necessity of the current peer-review system.
Nice! But of course I'd say that. Just to emphasize, in case the article does not make it clear enough, Open Access and changes in peer-review will both be a result of the Age of the Web, but the two are not necessarily tied to each other in each individual instance of a publishing venue. Different journals, pre-print sites, etc., are experimenting with OA and with changes in peer-review in different ways and at different rates, the two processes being independent from each other at this stage in history.
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One of the greatest shocks when I started working in industry was the realization that the peer-reviewed paper, the most valuable form of currency in the academic world, was valued so little.
Monckton has written to the New Scientist in response to Lawrence Krauss' article: