Matteo Barbone Walter Schottky Institut, TU Munchen Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
Mustafa Gündoğan Humboldt Universit at zu Berlin
Dhiren M. Kara University of Cambridge
Benjamin Pingault Harvard University
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
Alejandro Rodriguez-Pardo Montblanch QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
Lucio Stefan University of Copenhagen
Anthony K. C. Tan Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London
Source
via arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.12326
Abstract
We propose an academic publishing system where research papers are stored in a network of data centres owned by university libraries and research institutions, and are interfaced with the academic community through a website. In our system, the editor is replaced by an initial adjusted community-wide evaluation, the standard peer-review is accompanied by a post-publication open-ended and community-wide review process, aiming at a more objective and longer-term evaluation, the publishing costs are reduced to the running costs of the servers, and access is fully open. Our proposal addresses the fundamental problems of the current system: it reduces publishing costs, allowing easier access by less well-funded institutions (especially from developing countries); it makes the editorial evaluation distributed and more transparent; it speeds up the peer review process by eliminating the need for multiple resubmissions; and it introduces a long-term, community-wide evaluation of papers, ensuring their continued relevance and accuracy; while maximising its main goals, i.e. ensuring the highest quality of peer review and giving the best referees, the most visibility and the most credit to the best papers. Our scheme is time-efficient, financially sustainable, ethically fair and represents a significant improvement over the current system.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
