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end of the road for the old peer show?
Byline: Tracey Caldwell
end of the road for the old peer show?
Peer review is slow, potentially biased, and does not even prevent fraud reliably. As the open access movement gathers pace and journal publishing tries out new models, peer review is coming under greater scrutiny.
Academics and researchers want faster access to papers and there is growing concern that a huge number of potentially important findings are lost if they fail to make it through the selective peer review system.
A number of experimental launches in 2006 built momentum towards open peer review. The BMJ, PLoS Medicine, Philica, Naboj and Biology Direct have all ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, end of the road for the old peer show?