Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals? « Genomes Unzipped - 1 views
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Cris Crissman on 17 Oct 11fascinating discussion follows this thoughtful opinion piece pitching a new vision for peer review
Fitzpatrick argues that journals should throw the door open to all comers, then deputize their readers to usher sound articles to a pedestal and banish bad ones to the margins. Scholarly journals would serve their constituencies better “by allowing everything through the gate, and by designing a post-publication peer review process that focuses on how a scholarly text should be received,” she writes, “rather than whether it should be out there in the first place.”