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#open-access-publishing
Academic Publishing: Free-for-all | The Economist
Open-access publishers judge accuracy, not significance
Open-access publishers are also looking at new ways of doing business. Frontiers, for example, does not try to judge a paper's significance during peer review, only its accuracy—an approach also adopted by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-commercial organisation…
Sick Of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
Impact factors hold back open access
These developments go hand in hand with the rise of open access (OA) publishing. Though primarily motivated by the research and societal benefits that will accrue from freeing the dissemination of the research literature, open access is also needed to optimise crowd-sifting of…