The invisible hand of peer review
The invisible hand of peer review
The refereed journal literature needs to be freed from both paper and its costs, but not from peer review, whose "invisible hand" is what maintains its quality. The residual cost of online-only peer review is low enough to be recovered from author-end page charges, covered from institutional subscription savings, thereby vouchsafing a toll-free literature for everyone forever.
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
November 1998
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(1998)
The invisible hand of peer review.
Nature (on-line) and Exploit Interactive.
Abstract
The refereed journal literature needs to be freed from both paper and its costs, but not from peer review, whose "invisible hand" is what maintains its quality. The residual cost of online-only peer review is low enough to be recovered from author-end page charges, covered from institutional subscription savings, thereby vouchsafing a toll-free literature for everyone forever.
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Published date: November 1998
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Nature online 1998 http://helix.nature.com/webmatters/invisible/invisible.html Exploit Interactive 5 2000 http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue5/peer-review/
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Local EPrints ID: 252622
URI: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/252622
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Stevan Harnad
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