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peer reviews

Posted Aug 1, 2010 23:47 UTC (Sun) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: peer reviews by dlang
Parent article: Realtime Linux: academia v. reality

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peer reviews

Posted Aug 2, 2010 0:24 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

what I expected, so it sounds like there should be room for someone to setup something new in this space.

one problem is figuring out how to minimize abuse, but the bigger problem is getting academia to accept it.

University libraries

Posted Aug 2, 2010 2:53 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Professors who contribute to non-Open-Access journals are likely to get the stink eye from the librarian every time they walk in the university library. Library budgets are getting clobbered by increasing subscription prices, as the publishers sell university's own work back to it.

Background: Open Access Overview

If you're in the USA, please support the Federal Research Public Access Act -- this would at least stop the abuses where federally-funded research is concerned.