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Re: Trust a high value in electronic content
At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Here's an insightful piece from Outsell, Inc., regarding our need for
trust in electronic content, these days when increasingly huge amounts of
information are available. It's particularly apposite at a time when we
speak of for-free access to materials that authors of articles put on
their or others' web sites. Do we really believe that peer reviewed
journals can be replaced in this way? Do we really imagine a huge mass of
unfiltered content can substitute for content that is filtered and
categorized? How?
Outsell, Inc., has given us permission to reproduce these snippets on
liblicense-l.
Sincerely The Moderators
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This is a damaging myth. The open-access movement does not support using
personal web sites to bypass peer review.
Excerpt from the Budapest Open Access Initiative FAQ:
BOAI seeks open access for peer-reviewed literature. The only exception is
for preprints, which are put online prior to peer review but which are
intended for peer-reviewed journals at a later stage in their evolution.
Peer review is medium-independent, as necessary for online journals as for
print journals, and no more difficult. Self-publishing to the internet,
which bypasses peer review, is not the kind of open access that BOAI seeks
or endorses.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm
Excerpt from Peter Suber, "Open Access to the Scientific Journal
Literature," _Journal of Biology_, 1, 1 (June 2002) pp. 3f:
Researchers could put their own articles on their home pages and bypass
peer review, but that is not the kind of open access advocated by the
Public Library of Science, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, or BioMed
Central (the publishers of Journal of Biology). All the major open-access
initiatives agree that peer review is essential to scientific journals,
whether these journals are online or in print, free of charge or 'priced'.
Open access removes the barrier of price, not the filter of quality control.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/jbiol.htm
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Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374
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