Can the world´s leading research university, Harvard, change the way scholars publish their research. That is the question.
Under a new proposal Harvard would deposit finished papers in an open-access repository run by the library that would instantly make them available free on the Internet. So, no more long waiting times, and costly payments for the commercial scientific niche publishers.
The New York Times: At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web
Open, free access for all instead of closed, expensive monopolies, is the way Internet has changed media businesses. As Google, and others, has showed, quality can be defined through algorithms and wisdom of crowds. Interesting to see, if the intelligentsia is ready for this kind of rankings, too.
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