Final thoughts
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Do we still need journals or publishers at all?
- In other words, are journals a means or an
end?
- Stevan Harnad’s Faustian bargain between the
publisher and the author
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What happens to quality control?
- do we need peer review?
- is open peer commentary a replacement or a
supplement?
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If we do keep journals, what happens to the concept of an
issue?
- Think of articles as adding to a continuously
growing searchable database of content
- Think of journals as branded information
