" 'Liquid Journals' Use the Web to Upend Peer Review" & Additional Materials. Resourceshelf
Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Sep, 2010Can community-minded Web developers fix scientific publishing?
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Liquid Journals follow the disintermediated tendencies of the web to their logical conclusion: Liquid Journals do not rely on peer review. Instead, they are assembled by individuals or groups of scientists and experts using the Liquid Journals platform.
The Liquid Journals platform does not discriminate between peer reviewed and non peer reviewed papers, raw data sets and blog posts. The idea is that smart scientists can decide for themselves what belongs in their own liquid journal, and influential leaders and groups in the movement will organically accrue a readership to their journal according to the quality of the work they select.
See Also: Access Liquid Journals Web Site (Free to Use, Login With a Facebook ID)
See Also: Lean More About Liquid Journals (via it's EU Page)
Worth a Mention: Springer is listed as a partner in the project.
See Also: Technical Report/Research Paper: Liquid Journals: Knowledge Dissemination In The Web Era (12 pages; PDF; February, 2010)
by Marcos Baez, Fabio Casati, Aliaksandr Birukou And Maurizio Marchese
From the Abstract:
In this paper we rede fine the notion of "scientific journal" to update it to the age of the Web. We explore the historical reasons behind the current journal model, and we show that this model is essentially the same today, even if the Web has made dissemination essentially free. We propose a notion of liquid and personal journals that evolve continuously in time and that are targeted to serve individuals or communities of arbitrarily small or large scales. The liquid journals provide "interesting" content, in the form of "scientific contributions." that are "related" to a certain paper, topic, or area, and that are posted (on their web site, repositories, traditional journals) by "inspiring" researchers. As such, the liquid journal separates the notion of "publishing" (which can be achieved by submitting to traditional peer review journals or just by posting content on the Web) from the appearance of contributions into the journals, which are essentially collections of content. In this paper we introduce the liquid journal model, and demonstrate through some examples its value to individuals and communities. Finally, we describe an architecture and a working prototype that implements the proposed model.
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