LiquidPublication - Publishing Without The Peer Review Hassle

Fabio Casati and his collaborators at LiquidPublication, an EU-financed research project, want to change how you do science.  Namely by allowing you to do more of it, instead of sifting through journals. “The more papers you produce, the more brownie points you get,” says Casati. “So most of your time is spent writing papers instead of thinking or doing science.” But publication is 'where the Cadillacs are' to paraphrase a famous baseball saying.   Or is it?  They rightly note that arXiv has been around since 1991 and, while it has criticisms endemic to any successful enterprise, its value to physicists and mathematicians has been tremendous. read more

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